Can't Find Enough Lights for my Log Cabin Quilts--Any Suggestions?
10-09-2013, 07:05 AM
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katier--thanks for all the great links. It gave me ideas and I was able to search some more and found a lot of the dots and some other low volume prints at fabric.com (no shipping!!!). You have mad google search skills to find so many links for me so quickly.
Jan--I do agree that I will want some light colored background fabrics for the Me and My Sister's quilt but want to stick to mostly white and offwhite for the fabrics from Coquette as these fabrics are already a medium to medium pale shade.
Jan--I do agree that I will want some light colored background fabrics for the Me and My Sister's quilt but want to stick to mostly white and offwhite for the fabrics from Coquette as these fabrics are already a medium to medium pale shade.
10-10-2013, 06:31 AM
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Don't feel that you need a lot of lights. If the dark side ( hehe) is scrappy, you can use just 2-4 very similar lights ( or even just one) to do the light side.
I have the same problem of very few lights.
I have the same problem of very few lights.
10-10-2013, 08:40 AM
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Most times the "wrong" side is lighter than the printed side, unless it has words, you can flip the fabric to the wrong side, this might not help you as you need more fabric, but it might help someone else.
10-10-2013, 10:40 AM
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These should be easy to accumulate. Anything with a white background or at least 50% white in the print will work. She has used pastels, ginghams, 1930s prints as well as other prints. http://www.beavercreekquiltcompany.com/ <----- This quilt shop is going out of business and has everything in her shop marked down. Also check these online shops for good prices on clearance or special sales. Whittle's is always lower priced items. As Bonnie Hunter says, it really doesn't matter that much what the fabric looks like because it's going to be cut so small and will be absorbed into the big overall picture. If it's still ugly, you just haven't cut it small enough according to Bonnie! lol http://www.quiltfabriccloseouts.com/, http://www.whittlesfabrics.com/, http://www.stitch-n-frame.net/cgi-bi...menu-3000.html
10-10-2013, 10:42 AM
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So, I saw this quilt --http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2013/...-Tutorial.html
a while back and it really inspired me to do a few scrappy (but somewhat controlled scrappy with respect to colors and tones of fabrics) log cabins. However, I've noticed that my stash has very, very few print on whites/off whites so I need to get lots of different light prints to be able to make these. I have 2 quilts in mind that I want to do--one with bright colors from Me and My Sisters lines (Dilly Dally, Giggles, Amelia, and Twirl) and another with soft medium pastel tones from the Coquette line (I have one yard cuts of 18 of the tone on tone prints from this line--pink, yellow, lavendar, blue and green).
If you know of any fabric lines that have some white/off whites with subtle prints I would love to know the names so I can try to hunt them down. While I feel like I want to make these right now, I feel like it may take a while to accumulate enough good lights. I only have two LQS in my area so I don't have a lot of choices to see things in person so I do most of my shopping online. Thanks.
a while back and it really inspired me to do a few scrappy (but somewhat controlled scrappy with respect to colors and tones of fabrics) log cabins. However, I've noticed that my stash has very, very few print on whites/off whites so I need to get lots of different light prints to be able to make these. I have 2 quilts in mind that I want to do--one with bright colors from Me and My Sisters lines (Dilly Dally, Giggles, Amelia, and Twirl) and another with soft medium pastel tones from the Coquette line (I have one yard cuts of 18 of the tone on tone prints from this line--pink, yellow, lavendar, blue and green).
If you know of any fabric lines that have some white/off whites with subtle prints I would love to know the names so I can try to hunt them down. While I feel like I want to make these right now, I feel like it may take a while to accumulate enough good lights. I only have two LQS in my area so I don't have a lot of choices to see things in person so I do most of my shopping online. Thanks.
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