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Choose Fabrics with Confidence

Troubleshoot Color Selection

Having trouble choosing fabrics for your quilt? Use these ideas to help find solutions to your color dilemmas.

If you don’t know where to start:

• Read quilt books and magazines, studying the designs you like best.
• Use a favorite fabric as a starting point for choosing others.
• Join a quilt guild for inspiration and advice from fellow quilters.

If you like a quilt pattern but don’t like its colors:

• Study color combinations in favorite articles of clothing.
• Look at home decorating magazines for color inspiration.

If the fabrics you’ve chosen have no color continuity:

• Replace some of the stronger colors with their muted versions.
• Try adding a complementary color.
• Choose a dominant fabric to use in the blocks and borders, unifying the overall design.
• Add neutrals or less-intense colors to give the eye a place to rest.

Continued on Page 4: Visualize Contrast

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