Originally Posted by
Anael
Oh QuiltE, that's a gorgeous quilt! Tell me, how do you decide what colors to use with a mystery? Did you make this one with Christmas fabrics?
Thank you!!!!!!!
No it wasn't Christmas colours ... it was done a little different than the regular mysteries. Each month we were given a strip of fabric 3x22" and had to put it into the assigned block. You could use a little of it or a lot or all. Then you chose from your stash ... and/or the fabrics you'd already used in the previous blocks. I learned a lot about mixing and matching colours from that quilt. Still haven't got it all together, though came a long way on it. Oh .. just remembered, we had three colour choices to do that quilt ... the one above was the "darks", the one below were the "jewel tones" where all the fabrics we got were batiks. I gave it as a wedding gift ...
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How do you choose the fabrics? ... she gives you the info. For example, this is something like what it said for last yr eg. Fabric #1 ... you will see lots of this fabric, make sure it's something you really like
Fabric #2 ... this one will contrast well with #1, and will bring a "pop" to the quilt.
Fabric #3 ... a medium colour to blend with the other two.
And of course, quantities.
What happens is, you will be told what to cut and what to make. You are then told to label them as A, B, C etc and put them in a baggie. A later step may say take 6 of the 12 A blocks and sew them to 6 of the 24 C blocks to make H. Get the idea?
.... and as you go thru each of the steps, you will "think" what it's going to be ... and usually it is not!
Take a look at the steps in this thread, and you;ll see how they developed.
And don't let this scare you ... her instructions are very well written and it all comes together very easily!!