Need suggestions on what color to use for HQ
 

Need some help ladies. I want to finish HQ this quilt, but I'm at a lost. I knew I wanted to make snowflakes of red in the solid blocks, which I've completed today ( Used pearl cotton and big stiches). Now I'm at a lost. Since the fabric is Kona Snow, I said to myself, white would not be bad for the rest of the quilting, but I don't want to use white to quilt inside the stars. What should I do? Should I choose maybe green or red and alternate according to the star, or should I use just one dark color and keep it consistant. This is my first attempt at PP something of this magnitude ( thanks to Pat Sloan and the Splendid Sampler), so I don't want to mess it up. Thanks for helping me with this dilemma . [ATTACH=CONFIG]569592[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]569593[/ATTACH]

if it were mine, i'd quilt the background white and use matching colors for the stars... i'm a matchy matchy type. if that doesn't suit you, i might try a gray for the stars... but the background should remain white white IMHO

It goes back to the old question - do you want your quilting to stand out or fade? If you want the piecing and background quilting to be the show stoppers, get colors that closely match the colors you are quilting. If you want the pieced stars to stand out, I would use a lighter color thread in the dark areas and a dark thread in the light areas.

I don't think I'd use white in your pp'd stars. I think that would be too stark. I would probably use - for example - a red in the green; green in the red; and so on. But that's me.

You have done a wonderful job so far. I bet you will continue to do so whatever you do.

I would also go with white around the stars and a medium grey in the stars. Lovely so far!

Why not outline 1/4" outside the stars in the same color thread you already used and then see if you want more quilting. If you do, then you can add inside the stars and I think I would use the same color thread.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by connecting the points of the snowflakes. Are you saying go straight thru all the snowflakes?

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I'm liking your idea, which is kind of what I was thinking, just didn't have all those color quilting threads. Thanks for helping me out.

I agree... you have done a lovely job with the snowflakes! (ALL my hand quilting is 'big stitch', LOL....) Why not continue with the same red in the stars?

No opinion, just wanted to say what a lovely quilt.

Thanks for all the suggestions and input. So with ya'lls help I've decided to go white around the pp'ng and will go with an old gold in the pp'ng. I may even put a little gold inside the red big stitch stars, we'll see. Need to the gold, but started on the white since I have some. Hope to finish end of month. Once again thanks for the advice. Mary

On looking at the whole picture, I too would use white on all of the background areas.

Love what you have done so far!! If I was quilting this quilt for you, I would match the thread to the color I was quilting on to keep your beautiful stars and snowflakes at the center of the stage.

I think I would use colors that blended in so I could make your beautiful work be the main focus. With the colored stars I would probably do a STID so it wouldn't compete and maybe some sort of echo stitch inside and out of your red stars, again highlighting them. Very different looking quilt, but very, very nice and your borders tie it together very well.

Very late reading my mail, and this page. Have you thought about using a silver or gold metallic thread for the stars? Maybe a quarter inch inside each star or start at the center and do lines radiating out towards the tips of each arm. Beautiful work so far. Really outstanding.