Whether you're only starting or have been quilting for years , its always simple to make a screw up. Be it through inexperience, misjudgement or merely a simple slip up, mistakes can and do occur in the quilting world.
This is quite true when you are working on a green quilt design. To assist in avoid making one of the most common slip ups or to help get out of one if you're in it. It doesn't sound like a huge disaster, nevertheless it can ruin your quilt, and that mistake is :
Selecting the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the simplest mistakes to make - I should know, I have done it twice!
You start off by getting this image in your head, perhaps its a nice emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You purchase the material, map it out and get started.
Then somewhere in the middle, you notice that there is something wrong with the color "its too bright, dominates the other colours or just comes out dull. Either way your green quilt is turning into a monster.
Do not give up - this is a simple problem to clear up "all you've got to do it introduce another colour. Most times a burgundy or a white color really helps out.
If the quilt is too bright, I recommend adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this is going to help darken the appearance of the quilt and bring some depth to it.
If you find the green quilt color is not to your taste, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the unattractive green to a fascinating quilt border.
Fundamentally what you are doing is adding another colour and pattern to take away the negative feeling from the green quilt by adding a complimentary color to change the feeling.
So there you have it, what seems at first like a bad mistake can really save your project and turn it into a green quilt you are going to love!
This is quite true when you are working on a green quilt design. To assist in avoid making one of the most common slip ups or to help get out of one if you're in it. It doesn't sound like a huge disaster, nevertheless it can ruin your quilt, and that mistake is :
Selecting the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the simplest mistakes to make - I should know, I have done it twice!
You start off by getting this image in your head, perhaps its a nice emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You purchase the material, map it out and get started.
Then somewhere in the middle, you notice that there is something wrong with the color "its too bright, dominates the other colours or just comes out dull. Either way your green quilt is turning into a monster.
Do not give up - this is a simple problem to clear up "all you've got to do it introduce another colour. Most times a burgundy or a white color really helps out.
If the quilt is too bright, I recommend adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this is going to help darken the appearance of the quilt and bring some depth to it.
If you find the green quilt color is not to your taste, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the unattractive green to a fascinating quilt border.
Fundamentally what you are doing is adding another colour and pattern to take away the negative feeling from the green quilt by adding a complimentary color to change the feeling.
So there you have it, what seems at first like a bad mistake can really save your project and turn it into a green quilt you are going to love!
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