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 begin by getting this image in your head, perhaps its a beautiful emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You get the material, map it out and get started.
Then somewhere in the middle, you detect that there are some things wrong with the colour "its too bright, rules the other colors or simply comes out dreary. 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 suggest adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this will help darken the look of the quilt and bring some warmth 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.
Essentially 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 modify 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 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 begin by getting this image in your head, perhaps its a beautiful emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You get the material, map it out and get started.
Then somewhere in the middle, you detect that there are some things wrong with the colour "its too bright, rules the other colors or simply comes out dreary. 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 suggest adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this will help darken the look of the quilt and bring some warmth 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.
Essentially 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 modify 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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