Purple
01-01-2012, 10:45 AM
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Okay, I have finally accepted part of my problem with fabric selection. It is that I really don't like lots of colors. I like purple, blue, white, and earth tones. That is just about it. I just don't like other colors. I have been playing with the color wheel, reading about fabric selection, googling "how to select fabric for quilts," etc. But what it boils down to is that if it is a quilt for me, I prefer purple.
I should have know this already, as when I look in my clothes closet, purple and blue are the two colors I have lots of. (And purple is not that easy to find in clothes....)
Anyway, here is my latest purple quilt. It is a Rail Fence in three shades of purple. If you look around my sewing room, and even at my stash, you see lots of purple. How come it took me so long to figure this out.
Does anyone else have one color that just seems to be "their" color??
Dina
I should have know this already, as when I look in my clothes closet, purple and blue are the two colors I have lots of. (And purple is not that easy to find in clothes....)
Anyway, here is my latest purple quilt. It is a Rail Fence in three shades of purple. If you look around my sewing room, and even at my stash, you see lots of purple. How come it took me so long to figure this out.
Does anyone else have one color that just seems to be "their" color??
Dina
01-01-2012, 11:05 AM
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Oh my word bless you, bless you, bless you, you have set me free.I know I'm an old lady and this should have bee something I realized,but oh hell no.I have stopped dead in my tracks with everything trying to figure out how to finish off the bbottom of my ironing board.You know like the store bought ones.It looks like you pinned or stapled your.OMG I feel like the weight of the world just slipped off my shoulders,Thank you Sandy McClellan
The best thing is that I can still use the fabric when I switch to another cover. Dina
01-01-2012, 11:07 AM
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Works just fine for me, and, best of all, I can use still use the fabric when I change to a new ironing board cover. Dina
01-01-2012, 11:17 AM
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Color preference like everything else runs in cycles. I used to hate purple and now I LOVE it. And, there's nothing wrong with purple---we have a lady in our quilting group that loves it so much she almost always has something purple on--she even has purple shoes! We call her Purple Pat.
01-01-2012, 03:58 PM
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I'd say you're addicted to purple, but then so am I, purple and teal are my favorite colors, but I've made many quilts not in that colorway and have survived with it not being purple. That's a lovely rail fence, love the purples that you chose. Every once in a while I stretch myself and do something in different colors and the quilt police do not knock down my door, so I guess that's all right. I once made a quilt for a friend. She had sewn strips of all her scrap fabric and then told me she wanted rows of red in between. My litany while sewing the quilt was "red is a neutral - red is a neutral" and got through it. Surprisingly, both my son and husband liked the quilt and the lady loved it, so no harm done. It did teach me to branch out into other colorways though, so I'm not just a teal and purple gal all the time. It doesn't hurt to step out of our safety zone from time to time.
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