Color combo's you are tired of seeing?
#51
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I would never make a quilt for me with orange in it. My mom loved orange and she used it a lot. However, saying that, I have seen many quilts with orange in them that I love. So it depends on how it is used & the fabric it is coordinated.
#56
I started out loving the civil war fabrics and darker, duller colors but am in the process of finishing up 2 civil war memorial quilts (BOMs) (one I am handquilting and the other machine quilting) and if I don't see civil war fabrics for awhile that will be just fine with me. For my next few quilts I want something brighter! That being said I don't care for oranges or much yellow in a quilt but don't mind the other colors (even lime green in a small amount) can look good if used correctly.
#57
It's a good thing that no two people like the same things -- or for that matter, the same color combinations. It would be a very boring world. I love the civil war fabrics and the more traditional fabrics (calico, etc.) I don't care for the bright pinks, limes, turquoises (although turquoise is one of my favorite colors), purples, etc. The calmer fabrics tend to soothe me. Right now I'm doing a graduation quilt with reds, grays, ivory, and blacks. yikes. Sometimes I am jumping out of my own skin. teeheehee Another thing I find soothing is occasionally doing a low contrast. This is an interesting thread.
#60
Red, black and white; chocolate and teal; oranges and yellows. I don't go with set pattern colors. I go with my own ideas and now my quilts are recognized by the style of the colors together and not the pattern colors (get it?) I generally like to do Samplers and each block is a block unto itself and I will have one color that is in each block that is not a major color and I use that little bit of color to bring it out in the sashing and border. That is just my style. I have been quilting for about 13 years now and I see something different every time I look at a quilt that I have made. I try to make my quilts tell a story. Edie
PS - It all boils down to what makes us love quilting, what we make, what colors we use, what pattern we use and how we combine all of it to make a special quilt. Our personality comes out in each and every one of the quilts we do and that is what I love about quilting.
PS - It all boils down to what makes us love quilting, what we make, what colors we use, what pattern we use and how we combine all of it to make a special quilt. Our personality comes out in each and every one of the quilts we do and that is what I love about quilting.
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