Iceblossom

Do you like them? Use them? Refuse to use them?

I'm largely a fan myself, although a heavy metallic can be sort of sticky in hot humid weather. As I've been organizing my fabrics this past year I've been pulling out the metallics from their color groups and putting them together in their own collection and I'd like to do a couple different tops with different techniques and styles in the next year. Have a couple ideas in mind and one that I'm actually going to start, scrappy with black. Black always works so well as a neutral but I'm having a harder time with it and my vision issues. Going to have to make sure to have grey and not black thread as one example.

One of the ladies in my small group mostly makes preemie quilts and their group doesn't allow metallics so she is trying to clear them out of her stash entirely. I get to be the recipient of them.

I've had other friends through the years who didn't like them for various reasons. One of the reasons mentioned is they worry about how well it will stick to the fabric over time which doesn't seem to be much of an issue in the ones I've used, the fabric is holding up as well as any other.

Final thought -- is glitter/sparkles a metallic or something different? With the first project the goal is to use up some squares I was gifted first and cut fabric second and I'm not so concerned with theme but I'm not sure I'm liking the glittery fabric next to the florals outlined in gold for example. I'm thinking it is going to be an "everyone in the pool!" and everything will be just fine in the end.

One of the tops I'm planning will only be using metallic embellished Asian style fabrics and I'll be much narrower in my fabric selection in that case. It's funny how it is easier for me to develop 37 rules for my fabric selection than trying to be more general!