As I continued auditioning fabrics for my latest quilt, I was thinking mostly about value contrast. (Light and dark.)
This is where I left off. I could see that it needed some darker values to add some punch.
What about some dark green on the right? Yes. I thought it would work.
Plus, I auditioned the idea of a skinny vertical strip of black. Can you see it above?
Rather than piecing the green fabrics in horizontal pieces, I decided to mirror the angle of the highest set of stripes in the feature fabric. didn’t want a strong line where the top of the green ended and pink started. I looked for fabrics that would help me provide a transition.
Yes, that worked. Here, you’re seeing mostly cut and pieced fabrics. As you can see, I kept the skinny vertical black strip.
Then, I decided the dark green was a little too one-sided. I decided to add a green strip on the left.
I was very happy with it at this point.
As I worked on the left green strip I began to think about how I might add some more TINY bits of black. I thought I needed them to help tie together the other black (the skinny strip and in the pink fabric top right.)
How would you add a little black? And where? I’ll show you my answer in the next post.
Ellen Lindner
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