I am also not sure about a beige. It is buggy barns but the floral tone on tone looks a bit big. Now looking at Deb's fabrics again I think it will go. I am not sure about the mauves, paisley and solid, reminds me of retro '70ies, with your colors but I think you should wait to see what Deb says.
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Deb, I sent you a PM.... I would love to join this swap!
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Island - The only one that I feel really fits the colors for CW is the darker floral one on the left bottom corner. The paisley - the solids and the others are really too light or not of the family for the CW values. I know some of them are Buggy Barn - I saw them in Lancaster....but I felt they really were not of the same family. I posted what I had purchased to give people a nice representation. When I asked about these - I was told that all CW reproductions were more muted - darker colors, some tone on tones - with the exception of the beige and rose floral, and the darker floral prints that were not paisley. Sorry to be such a bugger on this....
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I think I will have to go to Joanne's to get some real CW fabric.
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I think that the blue - the solid one in the upper right - it may match the darker floral that I said that I like on second look.
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This sounds like a great swap--haven't done any block swaps yet, so will wet my feet with this one.
Another note in regards to CW fabrics--black dyes were not very prevalent in the cotton calicoes of this era. From Barbara Blackman's Civil War Quilts blogspot: Black and gray color our Civil War memories, but black cottons were not reliable until the 1880s and '90s. You may want to use black cotton prints to add a symbolic somber tone, but the black fabrics of the Civil War years were silk and wool. Okay off to get started with the patterns and looking for fabrics! |
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Just looking at the Double T block--could you make 8 small FG blocks instead of the HST's?
First block with HST's. Second block using FG + square within a square as the very center block.[ATTACH=CONFIG]350725[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]350726[/ATTACH] |
Here I am !! Here I am !!! :)
Will have to dig some more for the Civil War fabrics :thumbup: |
Never got a PM that it was open , sorry :( but I did get it stickied so hopefully we will get more here :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by islandwiz1
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Deb, I am in. Looking at my fabrics now. Where is everybody still on the other site?
Quilter Momma, Sheri where are you???????????????? |
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