What a beautiful assortment of fabrics, vadalia! They go very nicely with your A and B fabrics.
I haven't sifted through the C fabrics I gathered, but I'm thinking that overall they are too bright to be compatible with the first B/E fabric I chose, which looks very subdued in comparison. My second choice, which could only be used for E because it is not a subtle print, is a farmland scene, and I'm wondering if that's too specifically thematic to go with C fabrics that aren't related to farming. In addition, of all the many greens in my stash, I could only find one possible B that was compatible with this potential E fabric, and it is barely a half yard. I'd like to cut my C's before taking a photo, so will try to do that this week. |
Originally Posted by vadalia
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I think I'm following that one- I could only find it on the facebook page. I believe it's under Cuts and Bolts Fabrics Mystery Quilt or something to that effect, you'll have to ask to join. Let me know if you can't find it and I'll scrounge up a link.
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Originally Posted by vadalia
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I finally bit the bullet and cut up my Fabric Cs. I'm super nervous since I lean more on the "controlled scrappy" side at best, but I decided to just cut up all the unused fat quarters I've had laying around for years. What will be, will be. I did still try to kept the number of colors limited so that I could maybe do a gradient effect if I didn't like the scrappiness any other way. I did have just enough for the queen size (was originally going to do the twin size) so for the sake of cleaning out that part of my stash, I'm going big this year:
Attachment 641693 The dark rosey colored fabric in the upper right is my Fabric B/dark, the light beige in the bottom right is my Fabric A/light. I'll probably wait until I know how much I like the quilt before I choose the borders. |
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Here's a messy photo of my uncut fabrics. The cream (with embossed butterflies) at the top left would be my A. I pulled two fabrics for my B even though she said 'not scrappy,' in caps no less, because I rarely buy more than 1/2 yd. unless I'm buying for a border or backing. But I think these would blend well enough. In the middle are the C fabrics, and the two at the bottom would be my D and E. Please advise if you think this would work. If I were to buy a yard for my B, what color would you suggest?
Unfortunately, most of my stash C directional fabrics will have the wrong orientation, as the scraps were not large enough to cut for correct placement. |
Originally Posted by joe'smom
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Here's a messy photo of my uncut fabrics. The cream (with embossed butterflies) at the top left would be my A. I pulled two fabrics for my B even though she said, 'not scrappy,' in caps no less, because I rarely buy more than 1/2 yd. unless I'm buying for a border or backing. But I think these would blend well enough. In the middle are the C fabrics, and the two at the bottom would be my D and E. Please advise if you think this would work. If I were to buy a yard for my B, what color would you suggest?
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Originally Posted by petthefabric
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Looked at c&b web site. No NYE mystery. Do you have a link?
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Rebaquilts, the two fabrics are not part of a collection, but I bought them both when making Bonnie Hunter's Grassy Creek mystery (but ended up not using them). The grid fabric was part of Robin Pickens 'Solana' line, which was out at the time. The other fabric I discovered by accident while googling something else, and found the nicest shop when buying it -- 'Quilts 'n Gifts.'
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Originally Posted by joe'smom
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What a beautiful assortment of fabrics, vadalia! They go very nicely with your A and B fabrics.
I'm wondering if that's too specifically thematic to go with C fabrics that aren't related to farming |
Originally Posted by Rebaquilts
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Those are really pretty colors! Love the rosey colored next to the light beige with all of the others. Those look great!
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Originally Posted by joe'smom
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Here's a messy photo of my uncut fabrics. The cream (with embossed butterflies) at the top left would be my A. I pulled two fabrics for my B even though she said 'not scrappy,' in caps no less, because I rarely buy more than 1/2 yd. unless I'm buying for a border or backing. But I think these would blend well enough. In the middle are the C fabrics, and the two at the bottom would be my D and E. Please advise if you think this would work. If I were to buy a yard for my B, what color would you suggest?
Unfortunately, most of my stash C directional fabrics will have the wrong orientation, as the scraps were not large enough to cut for correct placement. So just to make sure I have it correct- the two oranges at the top are your combined Fabric B/"dark" and the two greens at the bottom are your D/light border and E/dark border, correct? The only thing I'd keep an eye on is how much contrast you can get with the B/dark/ orange fabrics and some of your orange and red Fabric C pieces. I had to drop a couple pink fabrics from my Fabric C because they didn't stand out enough against my rosey colored Fabric B, so I've been there too. As for what color B you might want to buy instead, good question. You have a little bit of blue here and there with some of your other fabric Cs (but it's not an all-over color in those fabrics like the orange & red is in their's) so blue might be a good option to tie things together without being too jarring. Or you could go extreme and up the contrast with a dark purple, since that makes up a triadic color scheme with the orange & green also prominent in your fabrics :) Good luck! |
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