Yellow in your quilts???
07-18-2011, 06:46 AM
#213
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Those are awesome!! I just made this one for my niece. The backing is a soft yellow too.
my sister holding up the quilt
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the backing and label
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07-18-2011, 07:14 AM
#214
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I have two. The first one I call my excercise in ''Y' seams, which was challenging to learn.
And the second is the 'Loco Log Cabin' which was a lot of fun and the third quilt I ever made.
And the second is the 'Loco Log Cabin' which was a lot of fun and the third quilt I ever made.
Y seam exercisde
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Loco Log Cabin
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07-18-2011, 08:35 AM
#215
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Plenty of yellow around here too. I'm planning to make a yellow wholecloth for a friend's baby soon.
Here is the backing fabric (I know, not usual to have a printed flannel as the back, but why not), with a small piece of the fabric that will be the front, and another fabric I was trialling for the binding. Although I may well do a knife-edge to be authentic. I had terrible trouble sourcing that yellow fabric, there really aren't that many yellows around and I had to match it to the owl flannel. I wouldn't have had that sort of trouble with blues, which points out how much less popular yellow is.
Yellow owl wholecloth - right fabric at last by Elettaria, on Flickr
More quilts I've made:
DSCF2036 by Elettaria, on Flickr
Turtle quilt showing backing by Elettaria, on Flickr
Isis quilt final photo 1 by Elettaria, on Flickr
The fabric in the plinth is a near-solid metallic gold rather than yellow. It may not stand out, but the goddess' skin is also yellow. Surprisingly, it was a very traditional colour for women's skin in Egyptian art. Mind you, occasionally you would see gods with green skin...
Here is the backing fabric (I know, not usual to have a printed flannel as the back, but why not), with a small piece of the fabric that will be the front, and another fabric I was trialling for the binding. Although I may well do a knife-edge to be authentic. I had terrible trouble sourcing that yellow fabric, there really aren't that many yellows around and I had to match it to the owl flannel. I wouldn't have had that sort of trouble with blues, which points out how much less popular yellow is.
Yellow owl wholecloth - right fabric at last by Elettaria, on Flickr
More quilts I've made:
DSCF2036 by Elettaria, on Flickr
Turtle quilt showing backing by Elettaria, on Flickr
Isis quilt final photo 1 by Elettaria, on Flickr
The fabric in the plinth is a near-solid metallic gold rather than yellow. It may not stand out, but the goddess' skin is also yellow. Surprisingly, it was a very traditional colour for women's skin in Egyptian art. Mind you, occasionally you would see gods with green skin...
07-18-2011, 08:47 AM
#216
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Originally Posted by Homemother
Hi Everyone,
I enjoyed reading the comments on why don't we see more yellow in quilts. I am requesting you to post your pictures of your quilts with yellow in them so I can see what you mean. I always like to see a little yellow in a quilt but when I try to use it in mine, the fabric feels like a hot potato and I cannot bring myself to cut and use it.
So, please help me love yellow. Show me your quilts!
Thanks! My favorite color is blue. ;)
I enjoyed reading the comments on why don't we see more yellow in quilts. I am requesting you to post your pictures of your quilts with yellow in them so I can see what you mean. I always like to see a little yellow in a quilt but when I try to use it in mine, the fabric feels like a hot potato and I cannot bring myself to cut and use it.
So, please help me love yellow. Show me your quilts!
Thanks! My favorite color is blue. ;)
Annie
:)
07-30-2011, 05:47 PM
#219
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I don't know how I missed this thread! I had to look at every quilt and they're all beautiful. I haven't made any with yellow being the focus color mostly because I don't have much in my mom's stash, but here's a pic of the quilt my great grandma made for my mom when she was a girl. All the flowers are appliqued in and it's a little worse for wear so is currently in a cedar chest waiting for another rainy day to dust so I can pull it out and just look at it before rolling it back up and storing for another rainy day
07-30-2011, 06:26 PM
#220
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And here are some of mine...
There is a lot of orange but also a lot of yellow in the sunflowers!
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Orange to yellow batiks.
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Though it looks as if this is orange, it really is yellow!! And the border has yellow squares amid the blue.
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Again, this looks mostly orange though it has yellow as well.
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