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Originally Posted by ghostrider
I would stay with the marbles, not adding any florals or prints at all. And, in my opinion, beige and/or brown would just look like mud with those brights.
I'd go with the same dark blue as sashing then a narrow border of the light blue and a wide border of the dark blue again. Another obvious choice is a black marble in one wide border with the dark blue as sashing. The blue will balance the yellow without making it look sickly (or sickening). I actually like the colors. :oops: |
Originally Posted by mrsmlm
Originally Posted by ghostrider
I would stay with the marbles, not adding any florals or prints at all. And, in my opinion, beige and/or brown would just look like mud with those brights.
I'd go with the same dark blue as sashing then a narrow border of the light blue and a wide border of the dark blue again. Another obvious choice is a black marble in one wide border with the dark blue as sashing. The blue will balance the yellow without making it look sickly (or sickening). I actually like the colors. :oops: |
A good balance is all that's needed. If you don't like the yellow, use a different color for sashing and/or borders.
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I think I would do the sashing and inner border with the dark blue and a larger outer border of the light blue. Then maybe bind in the green.
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I think black sashing would tone down the yellow and then it would look more Amish.
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Try laying out your blocks on different fabrics...prints, geometrics, black.......see which gives the effect you are going for.
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I bought those same blocks off Ebay but haven't made them yet. I will be watching this post.
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I love the yellow, and would use black to surround it. Then if you still don't like it, give it away to a baby without a quilt....
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Joyce, I bought a batch of those blocks on sale after they discontinued them. Like you, I couldn't hack that yellow on it's own so I made other blocks using some prints and other fabrics to quiet it down a bit. Here's the result.
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I should add that I used some of those prints in one or two of the "original" blocks to sort of pull the thing together.
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