Colour decisions!
 

I made this small quilt as a practice for my "big" one

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I decided to use flower "panels" for the big squares as focus fabric. There are two panels of each flower:

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And I have these three fabrics to choose from:

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Question # 1 - should I put the blue and purple flowers on the same quilt?

Question # 2 - should the two colours be the cream and the purple? Or the middle one and the purple?

I love them all, and am very tempted to do the all the flowers (or at least up to 12 blocks, so 6 of each colour) and do the purple flowers with the dark purple and cream and then do the blue flowers with the purple and the middle fabric.

Thoughts? Other suggestions?

For once I have a ton of fabric LOL ... so bring on those options before I start cutting up!

Thanks in advance for all the wonderful advice / suggestions I know I'll get.

If I had enough fabric - I would probably go with two quilts - one with only the purples and pinks - and the other with the blues and yellows.

so no purple?? LOL

I was also thinking of cutting the green frames off of the panels ...

good idea But .. there are only 8 blocks ... so I wouldn't have a square unless I embroidered a block?

also, I would then need to buy a different fabric for the blue ... and I'm not allowed to buy any more fabric! hahahahaha my rule

Have you auditioned the fabrics next to your prints? The black and white quilt looks so stunning because the print is also black and white. I suspect that the colors of the quilt should come from the prints. Maybe if the light fabric was a pale yellow or gold to contrast with the purple. There is yellow is the blue flowers. Just an idea.

I would prefer just the purple/pink blocks with those fabrics - the cream for background, purple frames, and make extra blocks from the middle fabric. I agree with adding a little green somewhere, perhaps a couple of the extra blocks or in the borders.

I can't help with color as I am color challenged. I love your 'practice' quilt, though, and can't wait to see the 'real' quilt!

I would use all the blocks and use a sage or dull green for the frames. jMOO

The darker batik looks quite bright on my monitor, pink rather than purple. It seems as though it might draw attention from the flower prints because of the brightness, but perhaps I am not seeing it correctly. I really like the middle batik for the background. I would use all the flowers together and I agree about removing the green frame from the panels.

I would suggest you google 'BQ1 quilts' (if it is 1); there will be many examples in 'images' and you will be able to assess the effect of your potential choices when you see what others have done.

Thank you so much everyone.

I'm 99% sure of what I am going to do ... I saw a different layout of this pattern on pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/20547742020968075/

So I'm going to use all the blocks, but I will buy (sigh, and I wasn't supposed to LOL) blue fabric to frame the blue flowers.

I love the middle one for the background for all of the flowers. And the purple fabric looks so nice against the purple / pink flowers.

I will post pics as I make progress!

Sounds like a great plan. I am glad you are not afraid to use all the flowers together in the same quilt, because they look great together. Have fun!

Personally I would use all of the flower blocks on a quilt. Everyone of them is beautiful and they do go together.

That is a lovely practice quilt. What pattern is it. i ahve seen others in that idea and would like to use up some small panel blocks I have laying around.
Would you be willing to share the name?

Looks awesome. Great work.

I would leave the green borders in the focus fabric because your middle fabric has some washed out green in it, and I think it would compliment those flower squares. For some reason, I'm just not loving the 3rd fabric, it just looks too washed out to me, the contrast would be too much..I'd just use the first(purple), and middle fabric.

Here is the thread where I am posting my progress: https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...l-t305475.html

I couldn't keep the green border around it because the fabric was warped ... when I cut it out around the border they were all wonky shaped. So no border!