Old 04-02-2016, 08:44 PM
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Peckish
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Okay. Well, I was going to suggest paying less attention to the colors and more attention to tone. My mom, a beginning quilter, made a quilt for my nephew and while I tried to guide her, she ended up second-guessing herself more than once and ended up swapping out several fabrics. Once she got it all put together, she didn't like it, but she couldn't figure out why. I took a picture of it on my phone, edited it into grayscale, and it became immediately clear to her. You could hardly tell where one fabric ended and the other began, because the fabrics were ALL mid-tones!

You need light, medium, and dark to make the quilt sparkle. And I would add the polka-dots with the teal, because that's your zinger fabric.
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