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Pat Sloan: Fabric 101 balancing color

It's the point in time during a BOM that I look at the fabrics and see where I want to go with the colors. So here is a Fabric 101 lesson from me. 

For the first six blocks in the Sugar Block Club I used a lot of the mustard yellow... because I TOTALLY adore that Moda Bella Solid. I've loved yellow since.. well as far back as I can remember.  Next to Red it's a 'LOVE" color for me!

But the blocks were looking a bit heavy. I want to lighten up the mix so for this block I only used some yellow in the middle. 

Let's see how they are looking. 

Do you see how having that one block with alot less yellow starts to change the mix of things? You will note it is OCTOBER (month 10 if you are counting) and there are 7 blocks.. yes.. I happen to realize that. .... yes.. I'm behind.. such is life!

To spice that up I've added some Halloween decorations to the mix.. 

The next blocks are all going to have LESS of that yellow and then when I get to the setting I can figure things out. If I kept on with heavy yellow in each block that would be ALL you would see in this quilt.. right?  So the mixing in of cream based backgrounds begins!

 

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Pat Sloan: Future project fabric

When I start a new quilt I create a stack of fabric to work from .. I might add a little or not use it all, but a stack is my starting point. These are 2 options I'm looking at for the next FREE BOM with FreeQuiltPatterns.info

Option 1 is Primarily Red and Aqua. The coneflower floral (second from bottom on the left) is the main focus of this grouping. 

Option 2 is Navy and Aqua. I'm thinking of that Navy with the white Daisy as the primary focus for this version. 

which do YOU prefer...

Aqua .. or Navy?

See my One for You, One for Me fabric line with Moda HERE.. in your favorite shop NOW! 

 

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Pat Sloan: Fabric 101 - Other Border

And I put together the 2nd quilt for a little girl I know

Instead of the Orange border I share HERE, I went digging into my scrap box of 'One for You, One for Me' to see what other larger pieces I already had cut from making the quilts to to with the fabric line. 

I found the large pieces of Aqua coneflowers, put them up on the wall.. and way I went!  I did use a cream inner border because I liked the calm of it.

Contact your favorite Quilt shop to see if 

'One for You, One for Me'  has arrived yet!! 

What would YOU use for the binding color? 

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