Need Your Improvement Ideas/Suggestions On This One!
#13
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This tutorial was very helpful! I think all of you are right---I need more light/dark variance and put them in order. My random method just didn't work for what I was looking for. Thanks to all of you! Looking forward to trying it again.
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#15
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I like your quilt. I did see the secondary diamond and then I lost it with the randomness. The yellow was really prominent to my eyes but I was not in a "figure" arrangement. Of course then my computer started flashing around. I swear this board has a bug!
#16
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What if you made 2 different starting blocks using 4 colors each, but made enough for 2 quilts. That way you could use the half of the blocks that have the part that form the diamond of one color for one quilt, and the other half of the blocks that form the diamonds of the other color for the other quilt. (you would make the same combination of 2 starting blocks for all of them)
Does that make sense? )
Does that make sense? )
#17
print your picture in grayscale. It will probably show that u used mostly medium fabrics. I have found that scrappy quilts look better when using a dark darks and pale lights. Even a solid can be a medium.
#18
I think if you arrange your strips with dark on the inside and light on the outside and alternate with blocks that are opposite, your pattern would be more defined. Rob and Jen have a new video that uses black 1.5" strips in addition to the other four. It is a dramatic variation of the pattern. I saw it for the first time on 4/27.
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