Can't wrap my head around it!!
03-07-2010, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by sewcrafty
Here's another question about doing a scrappy!! Say when you do your lights, do you put allllll lights together or do you stick with say just whites or just creams? If you do say just whites, then do you just pick scraps in another color that either go better with the whites or have white in them and save the the stuff with creams for another project? If anyone has been following this, this is definitely part of my control issue? :lol: :lol: :lol: I definitely need HELP!!!! :roll: I don't know if even therapy or intervention at this point will help!!! :lol: :lol:
You can do it anyway you want. It's your quilt. When I made the DIL red and ivory quilt I mixed white on white, white on ivory, white on cream, cream on ivory, ivory on white and pretty much every variation I found. There were over 30 different neutrals in that quilt. The blend is totally gorgeous.
In my husband's log cabin I used any light color.
There are a lot of ways to do a scrappy quilt. You can use one background fabric and a ton of color scraps. You can use two colors and a ton of each one. You can use just whatever in lights and darks.
The real secret to a scrappy quilt is, the more fabric variations the better!!
03-07-2010, 12:08 PM
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Everyone has their own way of doing it. For me, lights are: whites, creams, pastels. Darks can be green, purple, red, burgundy, brown, blacks, blue as long as they are deep colors. I pull out the lights then pull out the darks and whatever is left goes in the medium bag.
03-08-2010, 03:50 AM
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You know, I'm not a dumb person, probably more of a control freak about this. I can be very artistic, so why do I such a problem with this? It is really getting under my skin. When I get my patterns I'm going to bite the bullet and just tryyyyyyyy! Just to get it over with!! I guess I also need to put away the color wheel!!! It'll definitely be using only 2 colors. Don't think I can go any further than this at this point. OMG!!! Already getting nervous! I wonder if Oprah would help with therapy to rid me of my fears!! :lol: :lol: :lol: I better get my sisters quilt top done so that I can do some hand-quilting to calm down!!
03-09-2010, 10:49 PM
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40 Fabulous Quick-Cut Quilts
by Evelyn Sloppy
Published by That Patchwork Place
Sew Scrappy page 126
I am so sorry it took me so long to respond. I had to remember where I got the pattern from. I have actually done this one a couple times. I get bored making the same block over and over but when they are scrappy each one is different and it keeps it interesting.
by Evelyn Sloppy
Published by That Patchwork Place
Sew Scrappy page 126
I am so sorry it took me so long to respond. I had to remember where I got the pattern from. I have actually done this one a couple times. I get bored making the same block over and over but when they are scrappy each one is different and it keeps it interesting.
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