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One of my most favorite part of quilting is buying fabric. It makes my heart happy. I LOVE to shop for fabric. It can be online, in a store, or shopping through my sister's stash. I am not picky. Any method can change my day from a bad day to a good day. Fabric shopping makes my day. I also love to put fabrics together in quilts. I LOVE scrappy quilts. The more fabrics the better. I love patterns and color. I feel short changed if I can only use a few fabrics in a quilt, that is probably why I don't make many of that type of quilt. I rarely buy quilt kits because then my favorite part of quilting is already done.
So....with that said....I have also made some mistakes when putting fabrics together in quilts, especially when I first started quilting. I have some quilts that I made years ago and even now, when I look at them, I only see one or two fabrics that stand out. It is the fabric that didn't quite fit into the quilt. UGH!!!! Maybe the hue was wrong, or the color intensity. Whatever it was, I still see it years later. I made my husband a Montana Cartwheel quilt that took such a long time. I was trying to find a "manly" color combination and decided on blues and browns. It's a safe combination, right? Wrong...what fabric stands out to you...Do you see it? Take a close look.
Remember, I said I liked patterns and color so I love to add texture through a variety of fabric patterns, as long as the colors blend. It's the football fabric....the brown just isn't right. It still drives me crazy to this day.
Anyway, putting fabrics together is a fun process. Lay the fabric out together and make sure it all blends and nothing is shouting at you. If you feel that one doesn't fit, follow your instincts and leave it out. The best thing is you can go shopping for more fabric to replace that piece. Best of all, ENJOY THE JOURNEY!!!
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