Yellow Brick Road help
#11
After a little food in the stomach and time for the brain to start working, I took another look at your choices. I am kind of liking the idea of using the print fabric for the boarder of the quilt. The center of the quilt use some of the pink fabrics from above and the red but for a twist, put in the lime green and/or the yellow. This would add so much to the finished top. The other thing is that when doing this, you will need to add a small second boarder between the center and the outer boarder. If I remember the pattern correctly, it does not call for this little boarder but it will keep it from looking to busy. Here is a link to one that I did this fall, hopefully you will get the idea I am trying to get at. http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...36-282334.html
With this one, I pulled all the colors from the boarder. There was just a hint of the green in the leaves put I put more into the center. In person the boarder fabric was mainly purple with some blue, it is more vibrant in person. The green just added that little punch that was needed. I also used the inner boarder fabric for the binding, which just finished it off.
Hope you have fun with what ever you decide to do and can not wait to see the finished quilt.
With this one, I pulled all the colors from the boarder. There was just a hint of the green in the leaves put I put more into the center. In person the boarder fabric was mainly purple with some blue, it is more vibrant in person. The green just added that little punch that was needed. I also used the inner boarder fabric for the binding, which just finished it off.
Hope you have fun with what ever you decide to do and can not wait to see the finished quilt.
#15
It needs the green. Otherwise the green in the focus fabric is ungrounded. She's pulled the pink and the red out and needs to pull the green out too.
#16
MoanaWahine made a good point about your "focus" fabric. I don't think I would use it in the squares themselves as it will cut up into totally different looking colours with the design it has in it. A perfect finishing border though for the other colours.
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