New fabric...Ideas?
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 442
Love the idea of pillows. You could make a lap quilt using the whole cloth (quilt it and bind it) and make a couple of pillows, using one of the solid colors for backing on all of that. I can just picture that setup on a sofa - preferably mine!
#29
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Washington
Posts: 855
The last time I hemmed and hawed about what to do about a fabric like that, I put a dark black with it and did this (picture below) quilt from Quilts, Quilts, Quilts (or maybe it was Quilts, Quilts and MORE Quilts). The nice thing is you still get lots of big pieces of it, while actually putting it into a quilt, a form that you can enjoy all the time instead of only during the shelf-petting hours!
Nowadays, I'll cut a 6" strip from such a fabric to use in many scrap quilts and leave the rest on the shelf until a project for it calls my name.
Sorry that the only shot I have of it is where I'm using it as a makeshift sunshade. It was a really hot day and it's now a very old quilt ;-). This was a Hoffman ombre of the day.
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Nowadays, I'll cut a 6" strip from such a fabric to use in many scrap quilts and leave the rest on the shelf until a project for it calls my name.
Sorry that the only shot I have of it is where I'm using it as a makeshift sunshade. It was a really hot day and it's now a very old quilt ;-). This was a Hoffman ombre of the day.
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#30
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Peotone IL
Posts: 2,802
I think I'd just keep it for now. Many times, sometime down the road, I'll find a pattern that is perfect for fabric I'd saved for years but then gave in and used for something else. I've kicked myself then that I wasn't more patient.
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