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white/cream pillow help

Hi ladies, I'm planning to make my brother a couch quilt for Christmas made of cream colored minkee on both sides, thin batting in the middle, lightly quilted with an all over design of circles or criss-crossed lines. (This was by request). I'd also like to throw in two pillows to go with it, small (12 inch or so) with minkee on one side and a quilt block on the other. I have a great big stack of white-on-white and cream-on-white (COW, as jeanne taught me yesterday!) fabric that I'd like to use, but I'm having trouble coming up with a design that will look nice with barely any contrast. I could do a log cabin with the whiter fabs on one side and cream on the other, but I don't know if the contrast will be great enough to really "work." I also was considering just sewing together a bunch of 3 inch squares of each fabric, to give it a real patchy look and capture a variety of the whites and creams (this would help match the blanket to the couch, which is also white, so quite possibly a completely different cream/white). help! What block would look nice in just whites and creams?

thanks in advance! Lynn

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I once saw a gorgeous LC done in whites and creams. Do 4 smaller blocks and put them together any way you like, makes the conrast sharper. You could also throw in some thai silk, works well with cotton. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

thanks! that's a good idea. I could try a 6 inch practice block later.

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quilter

If you did just have joined squares, you could go overboard with quilting! If you have a machine that does various stitches, you could so combinations of those in each square. Or, if you were thinking of doing that, you could offset the quilting/stitch patterns - say half way down the fabric squares - and you would have a patchwork of stitches. If you used some variegated threads - pale - this could look amazingly beautiful.

Or: you could do 3-D patterns, like Jennie Rayment's books show. She has a website, and there are probably bits you could glean from those? Sorry I don't really know - I just bought all her books as I love the technique! Or there is another book called something like Fabric Origami. If you Googled on Folded Fabric Techniques, I'm sure you would find something. . In message , quilter writes

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Patti

Ooh, that's true too, and I just bought a new machine this month with

200+ stitches, so that would give me a chance to play with them. I could even crazy quilt it I suppose. Hmmmmmmm.
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quilter

oh lynn, i've seen a crazy quilt in all neutrals, it was gorgeous. whatever you finish with will be a beauty cuz all neutrals just are beautiful. so many choices in how to proceed, better you than me, i got enough decisions of my own and i'm getting nowhere fast, sigh... hugz, jeanne

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nzlstar*

What about just diagonal strips of random width of all the fabrics? You could even do your fancy stitches down some strips

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Cheryl

Howdy! Here's a pretty example:

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Ragmop/Sandy--no minkee here ;-)

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Ellison

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