grammatjr

I want to make my nephew a quilt for college, and thought of using a jelly roll, but then thought of just buying cuts of fabric if can't find colors I like. But, he wants a blue quilt. I know I can get various SHADES of blue, but also know it will be more interesting if it has other colors to contrast with. Is there a general "rule" how much OTHER to have? If I need 40 strips, then should 20% (* strips) be another color? How do you decide how much OTHER to put in a quilt? I have never done a scrappy before.

LovinMySoldier

Do various shades of blues and greens. Don't over think it :) It is suppose to be scrappy and unplanned. Just start picking out fabrics that you think he will like and start throwing them all together.

feline fanatic

Here are links of two beautiful blue scrappys from Quiltville to give you ideas

http://quiltville.com/myblueheaven.shtml

http://quiltville.com/blueridgebeautyoutside.jpg

She used tans, beiges and all different shades of blues. I love the bluerige beauty one and plan on making one of those myself someday.

DebraK

this one was done in mostly blues, with a tad of other colors. The variety of shades keeps it from being too boring.

[IMG]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ed/three-1.jpg[/IMG]

CarrieAnne

Thats really pretty Debra!

Dagny

Blues and browns go together well for a masculine quilt.

akrogirl

Those are both beautiful quilts, and I love the instructions she gives for the first one! Thank you so much for those links :-)

DebraK

You can't go wrong using one of Bonnie's designs.

Sheila Elaine

These are all gorgeous quilts. DebraK, those blues speak to me. Maybe I'll do something like that for my DGS.

sewcrafty

There are some quilts like the 2nd one that feline posted that use smaller blocks and use darks, med and lights alternating going outwards that give you an imaginary inward draw.