I need your honest opinions
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I need your honest opinions
I am making this quilt for a dear friend and have run into a couple issues. I gave the friend the fabric requirements and a pic of the quilt....she bought all the fabric. The first problem is that there is very little color to the fabrics, so that I have a hard time seeing any definition between the grassy hillside and the sky. A couple of the fabrics are white with blue/green dots, so almost no color. I have plans to fmq in yellow rays for the sun, doing grass blades for the green area and something that looks like clouds in the blue. I thought about adding a couple of lady bugs in the green area, so in the pic I just laid a couple in the lightest places. Will the lady bugs be too much color, drawing the eyes away from the sheep? The customer has given me complete freedom to do whatever I think....that could be scary! I think the sheep turned out great, using sherpa for the sheep and making the ears floppy. Sooooo....I am open to hearing any suggestions that will give this quilt a better visual appearance. TIA, Rose
#4
all your stitching ideas sound very good. the eyes of the sheep look a tad scary to me. i once scared a child with a Humpty Dumpty doll due to his eyes. Anyway, try smaller lady bugs as suggested and see how you like it then.
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 451
agree the lady bugs need to be smaller and perhaps a lighter shade of red since the majority of the quilt is palest pastels. maybe a honeybee or cluster of small flowers would not be as distracting. I do see a deliniation between green grass and blue sky so once you define the 4 major elements ..ground, sky, sheep and sun...with FMQ it will very nice!
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,538
I think I would wait until quilted to see. If you use a darker green thread to quilt in the grass. I would make the lady bugs as an applique that I could hand applique stitch on at the end if they look okay after quilting.
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