Kassaundra

Your purple 4 patches are also going in different directions. Your yellow / gold squares are so much darker then your 4 patch yellows, that might be what you find "uncomfortable" about the colors. Have you tried the reverse side of the yellow squares? (back side of the fabric)

joe'smom

Marcia, I think it's looking fine now. Keep in mind that this pattern really must be seen from a distance to be appreciated. When you're close to it, it is going to look super busy no matter what fabrics you have. I would keep going, and as Kassaundra said, watch the placement of those purple/lavender 4-patches.

Belfrybat

Substituting the burgundy for the red really made all the difference. As others have said, Bonnie's quilts never look good when viewed a block at a time and up close. Try putting four blocks up on the design wall and view from about 10 feet away. I think you'll love your colour choices.

Kassaundra

I got all my boom swap blocks finished and a UFO top I really wanted to finish, so maybe now I can finish this one.

JeanieG

Battle Axe - I also had a problem with the yellow squares being to dark/bright in my quilt and I tried to match them to Bonnie's swatches. I auditioned some other yellows I had in my stash and chose a much softer shade. It made a world of difference. You may just have to try another yellow???

Battle Axe

Here is an update. And I SOOOO appreciate all the help. I do feel helpless when it comes to color. I can look at a quilt and appreciate the beauty, but I guess I don't know what makes it work.

My computer does not recognize the new picture as different. Let me try some other stuff.

Belfrybat

Well, I probably am going to be a dissenting voice and say I like the strong yellow. Since you don't have many pastels in the quilt, I think it goes together very well. Then again, this is coming from someone who switched out a pale yellow for a medium in mine.

Battle Axe

The latest update. The brighter gold has some milder yellow sitting on it for the picture. I think I do like it better with the mild yellow.[ATTACH=CONFIG]570472[/ATTACH]

Battle Axe

Again, I want to thank everyone on the board who has offered suggestions. They are all good ideas. I am still somewhat disappointed in my rendition. It just doesn't have the punch that some of your other ones do.

My Dad was red/green color blind. I am a carrier but have no living children. But the emotional stress of living in a house where Dad did not know any colors, I think has left me scarred. He would buy a new truck and bring it home telling us that it was just so beautiful, couldn't wait for the sun to come up so we could see it. It was Mouse Grey. He said that was the only color that did not hurt his eyes.

Amazon had Bonnie Hunter's Addicted to Scraps book on sale this a.m.

kristakz

I have a suggestion for you, that might help future quilts. However, keep in mind that I don't do scrappy - my en Provence was made with a single fabric for each colour.

I notice that you, for example, used the same purple for all of the purple tri-recs sections. And the same 4 (different from the first) for all the 4-patches. I think if you are going to go as scrappy as you did, you need to really go for it - and use every colour equally in every step. Your result draws my eye towards the purple points, I think at the expense of the overall purple flow that Bonnie achieved.

I wouldn't change anything in this quilt now (not even the yellow, personally), and think when the whole thing is together and you can view the overall you may like it more. But I thought I'd point that out as some food for thought for future projects.