need a little help. please be honest
03-19-2014, 08:44 AM
#41
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Cute quilt! I like the quilt in general, but something about the yellow doesn't work for me. I like someone else's idea about using all orange sashing and the yellow for corners. I really liked the idea of the blue backing and then binding with that color.
I think the yellow print doesn't work somehow. I think I'd use a stronger yellow, something along the lines of the orange value.
And I wouldn't use that print. I'd say to use a strong yellow, but not a solid. Maybe one of the water color yellows? Or some other strong yellow print that has a modern feel to it. The print you have is too small in scale to go with the rest of the quilt. You need something bolder.
The bob the builder squares and the orange both say modern, whereas the yellow print says old-fashioned whimsy, calico kind of look. There's a dissonance between the yellow and the rest of the quilt.
If you used all orange for the sashing, then you could choose something fun for the yellow. I think the current yellow doesn't read fun, whereas the rest of the quilt reads fun little boy.
Hope you have fun deciding what to do. It's a lovely quilt!
I think the yellow print doesn't work somehow. I think I'd use a stronger yellow, something along the lines of the orange value.
And I wouldn't use that print. I'd say to use a strong yellow, but not a solid. Maybe one of the water color yellows? Or some other strong yellow print that has a modern feel to it. The print you have is too small in scale to go with the rest of the quilt. You need something bolder.
The bob the builder squares and the orange both say modern, whereas the yellow print says old-fashioned whimsy, calico kind of look. There's a dissonance between the yellow and the rest of the quilt.
If you used all orange for the sashing, then you could choose something fun for the yellow. I think the current yellow doesn't read fun, whereas the rest of the quilt reads fun little boy.
Hope you have fun deciding what to do. It's a lovely quilt!
03-19-2014, 09:12 AM
#43
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Saskatoon SK Canada
Posts: 280
You have made a colourful and interesting quilt for a little person. Looks like you fussy cut the squares so the figures would be framed well. I think you have done a great job.
Sometimes we work on them so much that we begin to dislike the quilt intensly. We just need to put it aside for a little while and when we revisit the work we are so pleasantly surprised.
amh
Sometimes we work on them so much that we begin to dislike the quilt intensly. We just need to put it aside for a little while and when we revisit the work we are so pleasantly surprised.
amh
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