Whether you are only starting out or have been quilting for a while its always easy to make a mistake. Be it through inexperience, misjudgement or simply a common slip up, mistakes can and do happen 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 :
Selecting the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the easiest mistakes to make - I should know, I've 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 the green quilt color is not to your preference, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the ugly green to an interesting 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 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 :
Selecting the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the easiest mistakes to make - I should know, I've 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 the green quilt color is not to your preference, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the ugly green to an interesting 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 unrecoverable mistake can basically save your project and make it into a green quilt you will love!
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