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Help? The colors of my Irish Chain?

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I would certainly welcome suggestions here......

It will be indigos and lighter, softer shades of blue and white. But because it will get a lot of use, I don't want to have a whole lot of stark white open spaces. So I thought, I will put something in that center section. Ok, so originally our bedroom was going with a nautical theme, John loves sailboating and boating in general. So I spent hours and days looking for a nautical print that I could possibly cut a panel from to use as the center piece of that stark white area. I showed him some ideas and his response was, "Does it have to be a nautical theme?" Well DUH honey, I was only doing that because I thought it was what YOU liked?!?!?

So, he flips through the Hancock's catalog and what does he pick? Batiks! Oh come on! I love Batiks and have been dying to make a batik quilt, but I have no batiks and every blue I have collected for the past 6 years are mostly calico's and what nots.

I'm thinking I want a touch of red as an accent in there. So he pickes a red and purple batik for the center piece! NOT!

So the shop I found today, had this Marcus Brothers Aunt Grace Scrapbook that was a mostly white background with little (light) blue flowers and little red dots. I think I'm going to try setting the folded FQ in between a couple of the patch blocks and see what it looks like.....

He did also pick a batik that was a light blue, with a brown banana leaf pattern...... but I really think whatever accent fabric I put in there, needs to have more of a "white" background to it?

any suggestions? anybody?

Tina, in Houston

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Tina
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I feel your pain. I learned a long time ago, not to ask non-quilters what they want. They don't understand. Just because you love a fabric, doesn't mean it will look good in a quilt. Heck, I even forget that sometimes.

Have you made your 9-patches yet? If not, why not reverse the plan. Make the chain (5 squares) in whites and creams, and the background (4 squares) in your scrappy blues. Then you can put scrappy blues as the alternate square as well. This would better feature your blue collection anyway. You an even throw in a few blueish batiks here and there. If you use creams and whites for the 5 light patches, not only will the color shimmer, but it will not show dirt and stains.

If you're dead set against any whites, you can use your palest blues for the chains (remember that you bought both sides of the fabrics) and your darker blues for the background, and your medium blues for the alternate squares.

The touch of red can be added with the inner border. I even think that red & purple batik might work with the scrappy blues. Blue+red=....

Does that make sense. anthony in Clearwater

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anthony

That, Anthony, is a wonderful idea! I was so focused on the classic that I never considered doing it in the reverse but it sure would minimize the amount of white I would have to deal with getting grungy looking!

THANK YOU!

Tina

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Tina

Howdy!

Quit consulting your DuH and make the quilt you want. ;-D

Good to "see" you, Tina!

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Sandy Ellison

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