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09-10-2011, 06:46 AM
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PS: JoyjoyMarie- To make a queen sized qulit, you would either need a huge print or you could use 12 repeats of your fabric and do twice as many hexagons. Which would be a bit much I think. Or you could add creative borders.
09-10-2011, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by BeckyL
Inspiring. I plan to do a OBW later this year or early next. I have chosen a Robert Kaufman fabric that is designed by Peggy Toole called Florentine 3 in the pewter colorway. If any of you are familiar with this fabric, I would appreciate your opinions as to whether or not this will make a really nice OBW. I can only hope I can do as well as this one.
I checked out the fabrics in that collection and am not sure which one you chose. It is a gorgeous line of fabrics though! I thought there were two possibilities in what i saw that would make good OBWs. I have pasted them below, along with a kaleidoscope image made of each. Is one of the yours?
Florentine 3 - Duomo Ceiling in Pewter
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Duomo Ceiling in a Kaleidoscope
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Boboli Rose in Pewter
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Boboli Rose in a Kaleidoscope
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09-10-2011, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BuzzinBumble
Originally Posted by BeckyL
Inspiring. I plan to do a OBW later this year or early next. I have chosen a Robert Kaufman fabric that is designed by Peggy Toole called Florentine 3 in the pewter colorway. If any of you are familiar with this fabric, I would appreciate your opinions as to whether or not this will make a really nice OBW. I can only hope I can do as well as this one.
I checked out the fabrics in that collection and am not sure which one you chose. It is a gorgeous line of fabrics though! I thought there were two possibilities in what i saw that would make good OBWs. I have pasted them below, along with a kaleidoscope image made of each. Is one of the yours?
How do you create the second image of the fabric?
By the way, thanks so much for your help.
09-10-2011, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by BeckyL
Neither of those are the fabric I chose, but I can certainly see that they would be in the same line. Mine has a dark brown background and pewter florals with metallics.
How do you create the second image of the fabric?
By the way, thanks so much for your help.
How do you create the second image of the fabric?
By the way, thanks so much for your help.
You asked how I create the Kaleidoscope image.
I use Kaleidoscope Kreator 3. EQ7 also has a feature that will do it. Some people use a special mirror tool that they take with them to fabric shops in order to test a fabric for OBW possibilities.
When I first read Maxine Rosenthal's book I was very excited, but also very nervous about choosing the wrong fabric and putting in all that work for a quilt I wouldn't like. So I relied on testing first with Kaleidoscope Kreator before purchasing the fabric. It helped me weed out a lot of choices that would not have been so great.
If you are considering purchasing a fabric online, you can often use the photographic image the seller used. Or you can look up a fabric you found locally and find an image, or even scan or photograph the fabric so you will have a picture to use. It helps to know the scale of the print and fit it correctly into the scale of the hexagon.
I will show you an example of the process I used to decide whether or not to buy a fabric. It isn't entirely accurate because you are working with an image of only a section of the fabric. The real thing will have much more variety, but it certainly gives you an idea if you would like the fabric turned into a OBW. I use the "Paint" program on our computer to "assemble" the hexagons and make a virtual quilt.
And yes, I bought these particular fabrics. :thumbup:
And JoyjoyMarie, after the panel is added, that one is a queen sized quilt.
Original Kaufman fabric
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Hexagon Kaleidoscopes made from fabric sample
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OBW assembled from hexagons (Looks like a Tickling quilt to me)
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With a Coordinating Panel
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