Mixing White and Cream
01-23-2011, 07:54 AM
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I love mixing my backgrounds. I think it makes the quilt more deminsional. If you use white and creames togeather just make sure you test the placement of the pieces before you sew them. When you are at a quilt show , usally the quilts with the mixed backgrounds are the one that people are standing in front of and looking at longer. It draws the eye and gives it interest, where plain backgrounds are good but does not always give you that little someting extra.
01-23-2011, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Hinterland
It's up to you.
I'm handquilting a quilt with a mix of reds, whites and creams. I think it works, someone else might not care for it.
I'm handquilting a quilt with a mix of reds, whites and creams. I think it works, someone else might not care for it.
01-23-2011, 11:48 AM
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In a really scrappy quilt, I use every color under the sun. And I love it. Think of clothing. I can't tell you how many times I've worn beige slacks and a crisp white shirt. So see absolutely no reason not to be able to mix them.
01-23-2011, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by KSCrafter
I've been working on a scrap quilt with dark prints and off-white (or cream-based) lights. I'm going to make another scrap quilt and would like to hear opinions on mixing whites and creams for the light portions of quilts. Is that a no-no? Or is it okay? In the quilt I made, some of the creams were prints with bits of color on them- little swirls of blue, or pink flowers- but I didn't mix them with white.
What do you prefer?
What do you prefer?
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