Originally Posted by schwanton
Originally Posted by Lilaciris
Originally Posted by Boston1954
Do you agonize over what colors to put next to each other in a scrappy? I want this to look nice, and I worry that something will be close to something else that will not go with it.
I too was overwhelmed with the decisions on doing a scrappy quilt.
I decided to do my blocks in the same color family.
I made tubes of strips, sliced off a strip, opened it up and added it to another strip from the same tube, but I moved it over by one section. The result was a block portion that looked like it would fit into a trip around the world quilt.
I have purples, blues, greens, reds, pinks, burgandies, blacks, browns, and yellows. I sewed them from dark to light.
Boston - I like your purples - can you explain the method regarding the "tube"? I would love to try it!
On one of the threads (I can't remember which one) there was a link to a video on Utube about tube piecing. It was pretty cool. The woman sewed two strips together, pressed them open then sewed one another strip on the same with as the two together. She sewed in on both sides, right sides facing, then put her 45 degree line on one seam and cut her triangle. She then slid it to the seam on the other side and cut another triangle. When she pressed the cut triangles open she had a square with two stipes on one side and a triangle on the other. It was cool, and looked easy.