Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

[fisherlady]

Your experience probably is as good as the wheel, but sometimes it may help with a color combination that just wouldn't come to mind as working but actually does.

I imagine that combining texture and pattern are usually worse than just the color alone!

 

[speckledhen]

Your experience probably is as good as the wheel, but sometimes it may help with a color combination that just wouldn't come to mind as working but actually does.

I imagine that combining texture and pattern are usually worse than just the color alone!

Yeah, that can be a bear, too. My problems are less the colors themselves than getting the ones I have to work. Walmart is very limited on what they have and I can't spend too much anyway, so I try my best to use mostly what is in my stash. Just sometimes, nothing there is right with what I'm doing.

 

[speckledhen]

Two blocks are finished and the other three are partially pieced (at least the corner checkerboards are) and the rest of the pieces all cut out.

I wasn't sure if I'd put them butted together but now that I see it, I rather like the hourglass pattern they form.

 

[fisherlady]

It looks great!

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Karen. I'm satisfied with the block I chose. Never did this one until now.

 

[fisherlady]

I agree about the pattern looking good direct against itself, it creates a new pattern in a way and makes it look continuous.... a cool effect. Most blocks are obviously separate pieces even when tacked together into the big project, this one is different.

 

[donrae]

It's the rooster fabric

I'd wondered what you were going to do with it.....it looks beautiful with those colors. Love the pattern, also.

 

[speckledhen]

It's the rooster fabric

I'd wondered what you were going to do with it.....it looks beautiful with those colors. Love the pattern, also.

Wasn't it you who suggested green, Rachel? I didn't have a green, per se, that would have worked, but when Ladyhawk said teal, I remembered I had one big piece and when I pulled it out, it just clicked. So you were right!

 

[wyoDreamer]

I was thinking the red would be better, but I gotta tell you now that you have the blocks going together the green/teal is perfect. It really makes the rooster fabric pop.

It looks great!

 

[speckledhen]

I was thinking the red would be better, but I gotta tell you now that you have the blocks going together the green/teal is perfect. It really makes the rooster fabric pop.

It looks great!

Thanks! Glad you like it.