Color?
04-07-2011, 09:19 AM
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I am fairly good with colors until they get close in value. In the quilt I am working on now, I didn't realize I had switched two centers accidentally until I saw them in a photo I posted. LOL. In the photo I could clearly see that they were wrong.
04-07-2011, 10:49 AM
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I think I got that same gene. I have a friend that is fabulous with color and I take her with me. I pick focus fabric have her help me with all supporting fabrics and always add one zinger!
Originally Posted by tweezy50
I have been watching this board for a while now and have come to the conslusion that alot of what makes a quilt pretty, beautiful, or gorgeous are your color combinations. Seems like most of you can take the simplest pattern and make it stand out by your color combinations. Mine on the other hand are .........yawnable, if there is such a word. I've got the light, medium, and dark down, but how do you decide which colors will "pop"? Please let me in on the secret. Apparently color coordinating wasn't one of the genes I picked up.
04-07-2011, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by sewcrafty
04-07-2011, 12:46 PM
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There's an article in the latest issue of American Patchwork & Quilting about Terry Atkinson. It has a page on how she chooses fabrics for a scrappy quilt. I'm going to put it in my binder where I save quilting hints. It's the June issue if you want to check it out.
04-07-2011, 03:28 PM
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Jinny Beyer also does a lesson on choosing color.
Having said that, I feel your pain. I have read everything I can get on color and still have a hard time. My old quilt store used to help me but they are gone. So I find the first fabrics, ones that I like, and then I look for help. My DGD's seem to have gotten the picking gene, so sometimes I use them.
Having said that, I feel your pain. I have read everything I can get on color and still have a hard time. My old quilt store used to help me but they are gone. So I find the first fabrics, ones that I like, and then I look for help. My DGD's seem to have gotten the picking gene, so sometimes I use them.
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