Well I need your help. Rather badly, actually. I got all of my “A” pieces cut out the other day, and I’ve been procrastinating with the “B” pieces. Why? Well I’m just not sure I like the color I chose for B. I didn’t want my Spinning Stars Quilt to be too busy, so I chose a solid voile I thought would coordinate well with the line. The only problem is that there are 30 blocks and this particular color is going to make up one-third of all of those blocks, and I’m afraid it will be overwhelming. I don’t want to use prints (for the whole quilt) from the line for the “B” block, though, because I don’t really care for the print layout of the quilt in the pattern picture. I do however love the quilt done up with the solids like those in this post. I know for sure I do not want to use white, though it looks spectacular on the quilt AM made. I think using white in 30 of these blocks would certainly suck the life out of the quilt I’m making. I have considered doing a checkerboard layout of the blocks, so it would go: solid, print, solid, print. Does that even make sense? I wouldn’t alternate with prints and solids for the “B” portion in a single block, but rather block one would have the solid around the inner portion and block 2 would have a print around the inner portion, block 3 solid, block 4 print, and so on. I need to figure something out. That’s for sure.
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So please give me your opinions. You’ll probably need to refer to the links I included if you are not familiar with this pattern. What would you do with a husband budget that allows you to buy no more fabric?
Thanks!
Meredith
Honestly, I think the red you have pictured here looks great! If you use just solid red in all the places AMH uses that aqua solid in her quilt featured in her blog post, I think your quilt will look beautiful. (Hope my two cents makes sense!) I don’t think I would personally mix solids and prints for that section of the quilt, but it all depends on what aesthetic you’re going for (something more regular and uniform or more of a busy, “crazy quilt” feel). Best of luck with whatever you decide! Can’t wait to see your progress!
Thanks, Emily! I’m think I’m going to just keep going with the red, and when I get half of the blocks done and laid out and if I hate it, I’ll have to come up with an alternative for the other half. Several people seem rather confident that the red looks great, so I should probably stop overthinking it and just go with it. Thanks so much for giving me your opinion!
I really like the red. Alternating with prints might leave you unhappy with every other block. Do you have another coordinating solid in your stash? Maybe using two solids would help you reach the look you want. Anyway, you would need at least four with red either way, so make those and see how they look together!
I don’t have any other coordinating solids. I think if I stick with just the red, I will use darker Perle 5s for quilting to “calm it down”. Once I have half of my blocks completed I’ll lay them out and will probably ask what you think again. I guess I’m just afraid of hating it! I’ve been planning this quilt forever and it just has to be my favorite. Thanks so much for your advice!