Advice for working with neutrals
07-29-2013, 05:04 AM
#23
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I like the idea of paint chips. Neutral can mean any color. Just by the posts, we all have different ideas as to what neutral is. I have a lime green and black quilt on my sofa, neutral to me. The fabrics I used blend so well together that the lime green is not shocking. Earth colors depend on what part of the earth you are on. Live in the mountains and greens would work. Yet live on the beach and sand and water colors may be your colors. Before making a quilt, finding out what actual color group the new quilt owner wants might keep a quilt out to display and not put in the closet never to be seen again.
07-29-2013, 10:00 AM
#24
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Location: SW Florida
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When I was looking to do a quilt for my daughters bedroom we used the paint chips from Lowes. I had painted the walls about 6 months prior and wanted to match the quilt to it- light green and teal. It helped so much!!
07-30-2013, 03:05 AM
#26
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I have two upcoming projects for family members that need to be made from neutrals, per their requests. Need advice how to proceed. My favorite style is usually country colors, deep tones and lots of contrast, like dark colors with light backgrounds. I'm thinking lighter neutrals with less contrast, so a "quieter"look for them. But I'm confused because I don't want it too "bland". Can you help point out some things to keep in mind as I select the neutrals I need to use? Thanks for your ideas!
My piece of advice would be to only buy enough fabric to make a couple samples of the blocks to put together so that you can see how it will look once completed. It took me a couple times to get it "right" and I have all this extra fabric - that I'm sure i'll eventually use, but i'm not really interested in making my stash any larger.
Fabric is too expensive to make a 5-10 yd "oops - this doesn't work"
07-30-2013, 07:36 AM
#29
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Location: Texas
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I think it's kind of funny that most of you immediately went to beige/tan/brown. In clothing, blue is also a neutral, as is black, which is where my mind went. I love black & white quilts with all shades of gray in between
07-30-2013, 07:44 AM
#30
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ckcowl: Beautiful quilt !!
Bearisgray: what a great idea !! I have to make a quilt for the oldest Daughter and she said bright .. well her idea of bright and mine are two totally different .. Thanks !!
Bearisgray: what a great idea !! I have to make a quilt for the oldest Daughter and she said bright .. well her idea of bright and mine are two totally different .. Thanks !!
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