Gray?
#41
I am a scrappy girl so I love gray and all colors in between. There are some colors I don't like as well as others, but I still love them in a truly scrappy quilt. That said, I am not wild about that quilt either. That gray is sort of blaaah, but there ae a lot ofcolos like that Good for some things, not or others I am working on a scrappy Ocean Waves right now - it has upwards of 3,000 hst and I just love it. It's Bonnie Hunters pattern and I am crazy for the movement in these blocks - black is my constant and it does a great job of showing off the different fabrics used. A dark grey could have been used in mine, but put that med tone grey and everything would have been drug down (my opinion). That might be a good color for really brights? I'm not a fan of the OMG colors.
#43
I love gray but have found you have to be really careful of your choice of gray. SOme grays just kill the beauty of the other colors in the quilt. I wanted to make a purple and gray baby quilt. I found some beautiful purples but the gray just made the purple look blah! I tried numerous combinations and eventually gave up and used white. I have since found some good combos. Who knew it was so hard to match a gray to anything.
#46
I like gray, but only in small amounts. I'm with you on too much can be drab. There is a pattern I like very much that uses gray with taupe, beige and other neutrals; it is beautiful. Gray has its place, but I like it in small amounts.
#47
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Just finished a quilt for this year's church bazaar. Focus print has dark blue/gray background. Then I threw in some rust dotted circles and a soft gray circle material. I am loving it. I do agree that you have to be careful with gray because it can cause a drabness to your quilt.
#48
I do like gray a lot, in the right context. It's a lovely neutral, an alternative to white or black. I used it on a wedding quilt last year, see here:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t232391.html
Just out of curiosity, what background color would you have chosen for the AQS winning quilt?
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t232391.html
Just out of curiosity, what background color would you have chosen for the AQS winning quilt?
#50
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Sewbizgirl-I would have chosen any lighter colour, even a lighter gray would have been okay. It does make a good backdrop for the machine quilting which might have been her goal? I think she choose a fairly dark background so the points were more visible. With that pattern I would have chosen a creamy white or marbled beige so the piecing was more the focal point and made sure my points had enough colour to stand out. It is still a wonderful quilt!
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