Your choice of background colors would be...........?

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07-12-2011, 03:56 PM

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QuiltnNan

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i love seeing the quilts with white sashing and borders with the brights for the pattern. but that's not me. if i have a background, it's usually a lighter shade of the main color.

07-12-2011, 04:29 PM

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JUNEC

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Wonnie

As a general rule, do you prefer your quilt block background colors to be, white? other neutral? or a color?.... and why?

Color would be my vote - do many sloppy people around my house, DGC & dogs - light colors show the stains

07-12-2011, 04:43 PM

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nativetexan

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neutral I guess. although i saw a qlt on here the other day done with orange background. beautiful!!

07-12-2011, 05:12 PM

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Lights to darks, but neutral :D:D:D

07-12-2011, 05:44 PM

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Glassquilt

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It depends on the quilt

07-12-2011, 06:13 PM

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blueangel

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It depends on the fabric.

07-12-2011, 06:38 PM

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par4theday

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My favorite is ivory to light beige, tone on tone, or tiny color designs. Shirting is getting to be my favorite, but I like the civil war prints.

07-12-2011, 06:49 PM

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Snorky Lvs2Quilt

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Depends....but I tend to stay away from whites. I really love color. But, again, it really depends on the pattern.

07-12-2011, 08:21 PM

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Murphy

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I like white on white mainly,but have used other backgrounds. Depends on the fabric and pattern being used.

07-12-2011, 08:31 PM

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Farm Quilter

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Lately I've been using bright colors with black...really makes them pop. Never used white as a background on any quilt, usually pick a color from my focus fabric and use that. At quilt guild Monday night a lady told us to look at the dots of color on our focus fabric and use the 5th dot as a highlight color, guess you could use that for background if you wanted color. I'm planning a 2-color quilt right now and I think I'm going to use a white on white with dark green!