Don't Sweat the Coordination of Fabrics
06-11-2011, 04:40 AM
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Many get obsessed about putting just the right combination of fabric together for their "give away" quilts. Mostly the charity quilts. Let me tell you about last week.
A local shop has a drop off place for receiving donations of fabric to be used for charity quilts. All kinds of cloth is dumped there - drapery, polyester, blends, cottons, 1980's and 90's cottons and prints, dress fabric etc. Various groups take certain types for projects - one of the churches take the dress fabric and use for their mission projects.....
I picked up a box of the mostly cotton quilt type fabric. I sorted in groups of three for rail fence blocks. I sorted roughly by color and print size. There was not enough for "pretty" qults but there was sort of a color and scale blend. We would never put the colors and prints together if we really thought long about it. HOWEVER, when they were made the quilts are wonderful. I didn't hear anyone say that the colors didn't go together but rather how wonderful the finished quilts look.
These will be going to Alabama and what may be lacking, in some minds, in artistic quality will make up for warmth this winter.
SO lets us up that ugly fabric and put it to good use.
A local shop has a drop off place for receiving donations of fabric to be used for charity quilts. All kinds of cloth is dumped there - drapery, polyester, blends, cottons, 1980's and 90's cottons and prints, dress fabric etc. Various groups take certain types for projects - one of the churches take the dress fabric and use for their mission projects.....
I picked up a box of the mostly cotton quilt type fabric. I sorted in groups of three for rail fence blocks. I sorted roughly by color and print size. There was not enough for "pretty" qults but there was sort of a color and scale blend. We would never put the colors and prints together if we really thought long about it. HOWEVER, when they were made the quilts are wonderful. I didn't hear anyone say that the colors didn't go together but rather how wonderful the finished quilts look.
These will be going to Alabama and what may be lacking, in some minds, in artistic quality will make up for warmth this winter.
SO lets us up that ugly fabric and put it to good use.
06-11-2011, 05:06 AM
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Great post! Another thing people fuss a lot about is that they try to exactly match colors in each fabric. The colors don't need to match...they just need to blend nicely. Don't be afraid to try something out of your comfort zone. I had one that looked to me like pea soup. It was the only one I could find that went with the rest of my fabrics. It turned out gorgeous and no longer looked like pea soup to me! Don't be afraid to experiment!
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