Ethical question about quilt shows

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Pat in Virginia
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Pat in Virginia

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Pat in Virginia

I never took offense at one single thing, Sunny. It's all in my mind, dontcha know?

Cindy

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teleflora

Polly, I'm in my room right now trying to re-arrange all my fabric and find room to store it. It all looks the same. It's pretty, but if I want to make something, I have to go buy coordinating fabric.

I'm not color blind or anything, I just don't know what looks good together. There are quilts that I just adore, but to make one myself, I'd either have to copy it exactly or someone else gets to choose the fabric.

I'm fine with solids, it's prints that I have such a terrible time with.

And I wasn't whining about not being a quilter. I'm whining because I can't pick fabrics.

Cindy

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teleflora

If (when) I win the lottery, I'm getting a great big airplane and picking everybody up and we're going to Paducah or Houston. And Polly will lead us.

Cindy

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teleflora

That happened to a friend of mine! Same thing. The lady even sent Mary a picture of the quilt with the ribbon hanging on it! Never mentioned her name. What gall!

So real quilters really do use kits sometimes? It's not just us color challenged peoples?

Cindy

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teleflora

And would the quilt then have to be put in the "group" category?

I just found out what that means - this year. I would be embarrassed to admit that outside this room.

Cindy >I always thought a "group" got together and made a quilt.

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teleflora

I'm known as a "really good piecer".

Cindy

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teleflora

And I've got all the mis-matched fabric to prove it. I have tons (literally) of beautiful fabric, to die for expensive fabric. And not one single piece goes with any other.

Cindy

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teleflora

OH, hell, Pat, where am I supposed to get the seed??

Cindy

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teleflora

See??? See??? I knew you all looked down on we'uns without the coordinating color gene. I wasn't born with it. I can't dance either.

Cindy

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teleflora

As a grade schooler I used to go "downtown" almost every Saturday and buy a skein of yarn to use on my loom or my "Kenner Little Red Spinning Wheel" (gohs, I lusted after that until I got one for Christmas! Those commercials were speaking just to ME). It used to really frustrate my mother and grandmother that I would buy what I liked, but nothing that would coordinate with the skein I'd previously purchased so they could be sewn together into an afghan. I still pretty much buy fabric that way. But if you buy enough fabric, eventually some of it will look good together! Just keep buying Cindy!!! :-)

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KJ

You know what I think you need, Cindy? I think you need permission to screw up. Pick out 3 things from your stash that you think just might play nice together. Make a block. Maybe two. Put them on your design wall for 2 or 3 days and consider them now and then. Then, toss them in the trash, stomp them on the floor or keep them filed away for reconsideration. Think of it sort of like doing homework in 9th grade algebra. You don't have to succeed. You are only learning. I remember one time putting yellow and purple together and they rudely threw up on each other. Mother Nature does that combination gloriously but not so with me. C'mon. Just stick you toes in the water. If it's too cold, try again another day. The largest trash can in our home is in the sewing room. For good reason. Polly

"teleflora" I'm fine with solids, it's prints that I have such a terrible time with.

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Polly Esther

Maybe you have to mix enough different fabrics together. Try cutting a few 4" squares (for example) from each of a whole bunch of different fabrics, put them all in a bag or box, pull them out 2 at a time and sew them together. The only time you can throw one back in is if you pull out 2 alike. When you get them all sewn together in pairs, repeat the process, sewing two random pairs together. You now have a bunch of scrappy 4 patches to play with. I bet it will look great (or at least okay). Sometimes I find that it is harder to get 3 fabrics to play nicely together than to get 10 or 12 to play nicely.

Julia in MN

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Julia in MN

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Oh, that's right Kathy................how silly of me!!! :-)

So there are no real quilters, are there?

BTW, Good Morning Everyone!!!

Marsha in beautiful nw, Ohio

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Meandering

To Cindy, The REAL Quilter- There are some wonderful books on color for quilters. See if you can find one (or three!) and read it. Then read it again a few days later. And then read it again. The ideas will start falling into place for you. I promise!

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Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Taria

Cindy, a couple of suggestions about picking fabrics.... you can practice these anytime you are in a fabric/quilt shop, even if you don't buy a lot of it. First, on the selvedge of many prints is a series of dots or squares with a single color in each dot. These are all the colors used in that print. IF you like the colors together in the print, then that is a good indication that you like those particular colors together. Start a "collection" of these selvedge strips. You can pick fabrics in those color combinations for a quilt and be pretty sure they "go together". Second, find a print you like. Lots of colors is good. Just pull that bolt out. then start pulling fabrics that are the same as the colors in that print. Not necessarily exactly the same, but ones that look the same, or help accentuate certain colors in the print. Pull some "almost solids", some geometrics, some large prints some tiny prints. Stack those bolts together and stand back and look at the sides, the narrow parts, against each other. Some will jump out and be 'not exactly right' some will help the others sing. Just practice, no need to have anything in particular in mind. Offer to help replace the bolts if you have them at the cutting table. (I offend do this by standing the bolts against the shelving, offsetting them a bit, then just put them back. ) Find, buy, or make a set of Value Filters. These are pieces of clear plastic, a red one and a green one. (Colored clear plastic report folders work well. I have a set I bought that I carry in my purse.)You look through the value filters to see the relative values of the fabrics, without "seeing" the color. It is amazing to see the differences. Great designs in patchwork can be lost because the fabric values are too close to each other. You need value contrast to have the design stand out. Another way to check value is to take a picture/scan the fabrics and print in black and white so that all you have is shades of grey. Really helps to show what is happening with value.

These are a few things that can help you "train" yourself to choose fabrics. Remember: contrast in value and size of print are probably more important than color, but not always as much fun. You can do it. It just takes practice. OF course you might not *want* to do it.... and that is very much okay. There are times one must say..."I don't want to spend the time/energy/brain power to do it." And for each of us what it is is going to be different.

Pati, in Phx

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Pati C.

Great.... I am working on my piecing skills every time I make a quilt. Sometimes I get in too much of a hurry and don't do some of the little things that make a difference.

Pati, in Phx

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Pati C.

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