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 particularly true when you are working on a green quilt design. To help you avoid making one of the commonest errors or to help get out of one if you're in it. It doesn't sound like a massive disaster, but it can mess up your quilt, and that mistake is :
Picking the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the most common 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 despair - this is a straightforward problem to resolve "all you have got to do it introduce another colour. Many times you find a burgundy or a white color truly helps out.
If the quilt is too bright, I advise adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this'll help darken the outward appearance of the quilt and bring some balance to it.
If you find that the green quilt colour isn't to your liking, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the undesirable green to an engaging quilt border.
Basically what you are doing is adding another color and pattern to take away the negative feeling from the green quilt by adding a complimentary colour to switch the appearance.
So there you have it, what seems at first like a unrecoverable mistake can basically save your project and make it into a green quilt you will love!
This is particularly true when you are working on a green quilt design. To help you avoid making one of the commonest errors or to help get out of one if you're in it. It doesn't sound like a massive disaster, but it can mess up your quilt, and that mistake is :
Picking the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the most common 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 despair - this is a straightforward problem to resolve "all you have got to do it introduce another colour. Many times you find a burgundy or a white color truly helps out.
If the quilt is too bright, I advise adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this'll help darken the outward appearance of the quilt and bring some balance to it.
If you find that the green quilt colour isn't to your liking, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the undesirable green to an engaging quilt border.
Basically what you are doing is adding another color and pattern to take away the negative feeling from the green quilt by adding a complimentary colour to switch the appearance.
So there you have it, what seems at first like a unrecoverable mistake can basically save your project and make it into a green quilt you will love!
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