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EagarBeez 03-17-2011 08:58 AM

I've been thinking of fabric colors for a quilt I would like to make for my youngest sister. Both her and my brother-in-law like blue. She says I have a great taste and will leave it up to me. I thought of blue and yellow together.
Has anyone made a quilt with solid colors, just something like blue/yellow red/blue....

kathy 03-17-2011 09:12 AM

I did this in shades of blue
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Diana Lynne 03-17-2011 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by EagarBeez
I've been thinking of fabric colors for a quilt I would like to make for my youngest sister. Both her and my brother-in-law like blue. She says I have a great taste and will leave it up to me. I thought of blue and yellow together.
Has anyone made a quilt with solid colors, just something like blue/yellow red/blue....

I am making two quilts right one..one is a black and red pinwheel and the other is a string quilt in which I am using a light blue that has some different colors in it, pink, yellow, purple and a darker blue ..Here is a picture of one my blocks and the other is the completed top of the pinwheel ..In the process of quilting that one now..

MadQuilter 03-17-2011 09:55 AM

Jacob's Ladder lends itself to monochromatic with an alternate. I did a green and white - should work with blue and white too.

nycquilter 03-17-2011 11:21 AM

I try to use fabrics that read as solids as I dislike how flat the solids look. But I've done one-color and two-color quilts and loved them.

mom-6 03-17-2011 01:54 PM

I did one in 10 different shades of green from black background with bright lime green leaves to light background with dark green to light green with white flowers to a pale almost yellow green with medium green vines and various others in between.

I haven't done a blue one yet, but have had a couple of requests to do so...someday it will happen.

Most of the time I use blenders instead of solid colors, but it just depends on the quilt. I did one with bright pink, bright yellow and bright lime solids for sashing and cornerstones to go with a print that had those colors in it and I loved how it came out.

Pat75 03-17-2011 03:12 PM

I did a blue and yellow quilt for a wedding gift . It was done in a sampler design and it was done in rows.I alternated the blocks from blue to yellow and used every shade of those colors I could find I sashed and bordered it in a .blue and yellow floral.I chose a sampler look because I get bored making king sized and using a different design keeps me going.


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