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Old 08-20-2016, 03:09 AM
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Jan in VA
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Originally Posted by Sewnoma View Post
I think I've always had an eye for color - not in the sense that I have good fashion (I definitely don't have that), but in the sense that if I look at a color I can tell - that's mostly red with a touch of blue and a little titch of black. My mom collects various old pottery and she'll get pieces that had little chips in the glaze - as a kid I used to take my acrylic paints and blend matching shades and dot paint into the chips to disguise them. I could get a perfect match, every single time....
Me too! That's why I might make a 2 color quilt, but it'll always have "26" different fabrics it it! It took teaching quilting for me to learn that many people do not see color this way. How sad for them!
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