flowered scrap quilt question
06-14-2011, 09:43 AM
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I am making a strip scrap quilt with flowered pattern scraps. Altho' flowers are beautiful, for some reason or other this is coming out rather dull and boring. Any ideas to brighten it up? Maybe I should just add some bright batik??
06-14-2011, 10:13 AM
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Is it totally scrappy? Or is there some rhyme or reason to the placement?
What about if you placed the strips/scraps from light to dark?
This is just my opinion - but I find that if a totally scrappy quilt has no theme - whether it's color or shape or value or texture - iow, just a bunch of scraps sewn together, my eye is roving all over the top looking for some sort of pattern. Something to focus on.
Otherwise, it looks almost like one big piece of multi-colored fabric. And that's fine, if that's what you want. But it doesn't sound like it is. ;-)
So maybe if each block went light to dark, or the whole quilt top did (3 bunches each of light, med and dark blocks), the eye can focus on that.
Or if it had one unifying fabric - perhaps half the block was a coordinating fabric, then the blocks can be arranged in some sort of pattern (actually, any log cabin layout).
The blocks don't have to be perfectly split, just giving you the option of multiple layouts.
I actually came across a scrappy quilt the other day - queen size. And I could appreciate all the sewing and cutting that went into it, but, like I said above, it looked like one big piece of fabric. I had nowhere to look for something - anything- to be going on design-wise.
Make any sense?
What about if you placed the strips/scraps from light to dark?
This is just my opinion - but I find that if a totally scrappy quilt has no theme - whether it's color or shape or value or texture - iow, just a bunch of scraps sewn together, my eye is roving all over the top looking for some sort of pattern. Something to focus on.
Otherwise, it looks almost like one big piece of multi-colored fabric. And that's fine, if that's what you want. But it doesn't sound like it is. ;-)
So maybe if each block went light to dark, or the whole quilt top did (3 bunches each of light, med and dark blocks), the eye can focus on that.
Or if it had one unifying fabric - perhaps half the block was a coordinating fabric, then the blocks can be arranged in some sort of pattern (actually, any log cabin layout).
The blocks don't have to be perfectly split, just giving you the option of multiple layouts.
I actually came across a scrappy quilt the other day - queen size. And I could appreciate all the sewing and cutting that went into it, but, like I said above, it looked like one big piece of fabric. I had nowhere to look for something - anything- to be going on design-wise.
Make any sense?
06-15-2011, 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted by grammyp
Try tossing in some solids (especially white or black) to give the eye a rest. Sometimes that helps colors pop.
06-15-2011, 04:20 AM
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Originally Posted by MTS
Is it totally scrappy? Or is there some rhyme or reason to the placement?
What about if you placed the strips/scraps from light to dark?
This is just my opinion - but I find that if a totally scrappy quilt has no theme - whether it's color or shape or value or texture - iow, just a bunch of scraps sewn together, my eye is roving all over the top looking for some sort of pattern. Something to focus on.
Otherwise, it looks almost like one big piece of multi-colored fabric. And that's fine, if that's what you want. But it doesn't sound like it is. ;-)
So maybe if each block went light to dark, or the whole quilt top did (3 bunches each of light, med and dark blocks), the eye can focus on that.
Or if it had one unifying fabric - perhaps half the block was a coordinating fabric, then the blocks can be arranged in some sort of pattern (actually, any log cabin layout).
The blocks don't have to be perfectly split, just giving you the option of multiple layouts.
I actually came across a scrappy quilt the other day - queen size. And I could appreciate all the sewing and cutting that went into it, but, like I said above, it looked like one big piece of fabric. I had nowhere to look for something - anything- to be going on design-wise.
Make any sense?
What about if you placed the strips/scraps from light to dark?
This is just my opinion - but I find that if a totally scrappy quilt has no theme - whether it's color or shape or value or texture - iow, just a bunch of scraps sewn together, my eye is roving all over the top looking for some sort of pattern. Something to focus on.
Otherwise, it looks almost like one big piece of multi-colored fabric. And that's fine, if that's what you want. But it doesn't sound like it is. ;-)
So maybe if each block went light to dark, or the whole quilt top did (3 bunches each of light, med and dark blocks), the eye can focus on that.
Or if it had one unifying fabric - perhaps half the block was a coordinating fabric, then the blocks can be arranged in some sort of pattern (actually, any log cabin layout).
The blocks don't have to be perfectly split, just giving you the option of multiple layouts.
I actually came across a scrappy quilt the other day - queen size. And I could appreciate all the sewing and cutting that went into it, but, like I said above, it looked like one big piece of fabric. I had nowhere to look for something - anything- to be going on design-wise.
Make any sense?
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