Fabric designs... how literally do you interpret them?
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Fabric designs... how literally do you interpret them?
How literally are you inclined to view fabric designs?
Does a daffodil fabric always have to have flowers in yellow, white, and orange?
Would you find a fabric with blue tulips a bit disturbing?
What about fish? Does a salmon have to be ... salmon in color?
Or can it be green?
Does a daffodil fabric always have to have flowers in yellow, white, and orange?
Would you find a fabric with blue tulips a bit disturbing?
What about fish? Does a salmon have to be ... salmon in color?
Or can it be green?
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I like them both - but I would prefer that the blue one would be called 'fish' instead of 'salmon'
I tend to be literal - if a collection is called - 'pretty pansies' - I expect at least a couple of the fabrics to have pansies on them.
I tend to be literal - if a collection is called - 'pretty pansies' - I expect at least a couple of the fabrics to have pansies on them.
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I guess I'd have to consider the use for the fabric, such as it's intended recipient, meaning pink fish for a guy, etc. lol Otherwise, I'd use whatever works well together! In fact, depending on the light and it's reflections, and depth of water, real salmon can appear to be many different colors! I really like both of these prints and wouldn't hesitate to use either of them!
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I would use either of these fabrics. When I'm making a quilt I'm looking for colours to fit the whole, not colours to match what the graphic is representing. I would use plaid fish in a quilt if the quilt required plaid and I would use purple oranges if I needed purple in my quilt.
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Both are gorgeous!
Blue for those who are making a quilt of 'any' fish in the river/lake/sea; orange for those who are envisioning koi in their pond.
Then again, I have made a quilt, shown on this board, that used a purple fabric with large fish on it as a background and no one has yet recognized it as fish, no matter where I've shown it!
Sometimes the print doesn't matter, the "movement" in it does.
Blue for those who are making a quilt of 'any' fish in the river/lake/sea; orange for those who are envisioning koi in their pond.
Then again, I have made a quilt, shown on this board, that used a purple fabric with large fish on it as a background and no one has yet recognized it as fish, no matter where I've shown it!
Sometimes the print doesn't matter, the "movement" in it does.
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I should mention... the only reason I would have known the fish was supposed to be a salmon is that it's part of an Alaskan-theme batik group, which Hoffman recently posted on their website.
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