gramajo

[QUOTE=yngldy;6201380]What an ah ha moment, bearisgray! Letting them pick out paint chips for the colors. Best suggestion ever!!![/QUOTE
I agree. That is a grear idea!

tropit

Peggi,

Your quilt is beautiful and inspiring! I love the use of colors and also the design. You did a wonderful job on it!

~ Cindy

Bneighbor

I like the idea of paint chips. Neutral can mean any color. Just by the posts, we all have different ideas as to what neutral is. I have a lime green and black quilt on my sofa, neutral to me. The fabrics I used blend so well together that the lime green is not shocking. Earth colors depend on what part of the earth you are on. Live in the mountains and greens would work. Yet live on the beach and sand and water colors may be your colors. Before making a quilt, finding out what actual color group the new quilt owner wants might keep a quilt out to display and not put in the closet never to be seen again.

SusanSusan33

When I was looking to do a quilt for my daughters bedroom we used the paint chips from Lowes. I had painted the walls about 6 months prior and wanted to match the quilt to it- light green and teal. It helped so much!!

SimpsonFrances

Take a look at the White Chocolate pattern from Stitchin Heaven. Pictures don't do it justice! I am going to make this one next!

117becca

I know EXACTLY what you mean!!!! I am not a "neutral gal" and it was very very hard for me to put my current project together. What I visualized and what reality was were two vastly different things!!!

My piece of advice would be to only buy enough fabric to make a couple samples of the blocks to put together so that you can see how it will look once completed. It took me a couple times to get it "right" and I have all this extra fabric - that I'm sure i'll eventually use, but i'm not really interested in making my stash any larger.

Fabric is too expensive to make a 5-10 yd "oops - this doesn't work"

gardnergal970

Look at the serenity scrappy quilt posted in pictures today.

mom-6

I think the paint chip idea is awesome. That way you can be sure you and they are meaning the same thing when they say neutrals.

mckwilter

I think it's kind of funny that most of you immediately went to beige/tan/brown. In clothing, blue is also a neutral, as is black, which is where my mind went. I love black & white quilts with all shades of gray in between

Caswews

ckcowl: Beautiful quilt !!
Bearisgray: what a great idea !! I have to make a quilt for the oldest Daughter and she said bright .. well her idea of bright and mine are two totally different .. Thanks !!