Turning Twenty - Fabric selection?
01-16-2010, 02:19 PM
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Do you have a color wheel? Once you pick the "Definitely this it the one I'm gonna use" fabric, it is the baseline for the decision.
If you want "blendy" like you indicated, then you have two choices:
1. You can choose fabrics in different values/patterns of the same color.
2. You can choose fabrics that are on either side of that color on the wheel.
You could go for contrast by going opposite on the color wheel and pick from each of the two colors to make up your selection.
There is also a triad where you split the difference on the color wheel and pick a total of three colors.
Hope that helps.
If you want "blendy" like you indicated, then you have two choices:
1. You can choose fabrics in different values/patterns of the same color.
2. You can choose fabrics that are on either side of that color on the wheel.
You could go for contrast by going opposite on the color wheel and pick from each of the two colors to make up your selection.
There is also a triad where you split the difference on the color wheel and pick a total of three colors.
Hope that helps.
01-16-2010, 02:38 PM
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Here is mine. I didn't use twenty at all. I like the results.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-32921-1.htm
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-32921-1.htm
01-16-2010, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
I like to pick out my own fabrics. One of the ones I made I did it in Blues and Yellows. I had several fabrics that had both the blue and yellow in them and then several each that read blue or yellow (tone on tones, blenders etc) I think it came out looking really nice.
My recommendation is pick out 2 or 3 colors that you want in your quilt and find a couple fabrics that have all the colors in it or at least two of the colors and then varying shades of your colors to blend with it.
My recommendation is pick out 2 or 3 colors that you want in your quilt and find a couple fabrics that have all the colors in it or at least two of the colors and then varying shades of your colors to blend with it.
01-16-2010, 06:36 PM
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Here's the picture of my TTA, and the F4s for my next one in greens and blues with some purples and creams - an example of fabrics that will work together without matching... just in the same color family with a few that'll pop it.
Cowboy Quilt
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F4s for next one
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01-16-2010, 07:30 PM
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Here is our TT. It is king size and I think we used 30 FQ. We just collected fabrics that complemented one another, then we started cutting. I think as long as there is continuity in your fabrics you can't go wrong with this pattern.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-15755-1.htm#266191
Darren
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-15755-1.htm#266191
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