The Biggest Mistake People Make When Making a Green Quilt – And How You Can Fix It!
Whether you’re only starting or have been quilting for years , its always simple to screw up. Be it through inexperience, misjudgement or simply a blatant slip up, mistakes can and do occur in the quilting world.
This is especially true when you are working on a green quilt design. To help you avoid making one of the most typical errors or to help get out of one if you are in it. It doesn’t sound like a huge disaster, but it can ruin your quilt, and that mistake is :
Choosing the wrong shade of Green.
This is one of the most common mistakes to make – I should know, I've done it twice!
You begin by getting this image in your head, maybe its a nice emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You buy the material, map it out and kick it off..
Then somewhere in the middle, you detect that there is something wrong with the colour “its too bright, overpowers the other colors or just comes out dull. Either way your green quilt is turning into a monster.
Do not give up – this is an easy problem to clear up “all you’ve got to do it introduce another color. Many times you find a burgundy or a white color actually helps out.
If the quilt is too bright, I suggest adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this will help darken the appearance of the quilt and bring some depth to it.
If you find the green quilt colour isn’t to your liking, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the undesirable green to an interesting quilt border.
Basically 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 appears initially like a hopeless mistake can basically save your project and turn it into a green quilt you are going to love!
Interested in more green quilt design ideas? Then head on over to Jane Green’s how to make a patchwork quilt site now!
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