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02-18-2019, 08:55 AM

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Judith1005

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Originally Posted by Iceblossom

So I need help! No, I'm not tempted to buy exactly, but on letting go of my desire for control.

While typically I do most of my quilts as scrap or charm quilts, I find what works well for me is to have some consistent placement or fabrics to help calm down the wild scraps. Sure, for the "colors" I use a lot of different stuff but I definitely prefer to have a consistent background.

I'm going to be making these flying square blocks (link a couple of pages ago) and am about to cut the whites I'll be using. I want to use up lots of little pieces of white on white, but part of me is concerned about how they will look completed, I know just looking in the box some pieces are very bright white, some more yellow, grey, whatever.

So how do you quilters do it? Do you just mix and match? Do you do all the same background in the same block? Do you just relax and figure it will all work in the end? I'm having problems relaxing, funny that using different whites is out of my comfort zone.

What I am thinking is that I should cut multiple different pieces of the white-on-white and use my surplus Y2K trading squares (lol yes, they've been sitting in my strip box for all these years) on those strips for a different set of scraps than the 9-patches, with each side of the block using a different white-on-white.

I haven't fully fleshed out this quilt in my mind. I know that if I add white sashing the outer rings of the 9-patches and the sashing will form a resulting white 9-patch shape and I might want to go that route. In that case should I continue with random pieces or should I use one consistent piece for the sashing?? Maybe I should just go play in Electric Quilt and do a bit more planing, even though I was trying hard to just let this project happen.

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Here's that link again
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-...es-quilt-block

My 9-patches will all be scrappy, no attempt at light or dark corners or anything. I went through and divided my strips into light/dark, which meant mediums landed on both sides and will land together.

Not the best photo. But, this quilt uses all different scrappy whites. It doesn't make a bit of difference. It still reads white on white. And, you know how all whites are not the same hue. It is true of this quilt also. And, the pinks and oranges are scrappy also.

Here's a picture of a close up of the different whites. Although, it is really hard to tell the difference when quilted.

I did have it quilted by a long armer with an overall E2E design. When quilted, it is really tough to tell the difference. (It was way to large for me to contemplate quilting on my own.)

So, definitely go scrappy if you need to.

Last edited by Judith1005; 02-18-2019 at 09:04 AM.

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