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Step 1
Choose a printed fabric (florals, paisley, novelty) and use it as the basis for your quilt.
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Step 2
Pick out four to five individual colors from your printed fabric. These colors can then be found in other fabrics.
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Step 3
When choosing the additional fabrics, vary the texture of the fabric. One can be solid, another a stripe, the others a different type of print.
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Step 1
Choose your favorite color as the basis for your quilt and find a fabric you like in that color.
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Step 2
The additional fabrics can be chosen in three different ways.
1. Choose variations in the hue of your fabric - light, medium, and dark.
2. Choose complimentary colors (those next to your favorite color on a color wheel), vary the hue of the fabrics from light to dark
3. Choose contrasting colors (those across from your color on a color wheel), vary the hue of the fabrics from light to dark. -
Step 3
When choosing the additional fabrics, vary the texture of the fabric. One can be solid, another a stripe, the others a different type of print.
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Step 1
Choose a wallpaper that you like and pick out four or five of the colors that are in the wallpaper as the basis for your quilt.
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Step 2
When picking the fabrics in the colors of the wallpaper, vary the texture of the fabric. One can be solid, another a stripe, the others a different type of print.
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Step 1
As you look through quilting books and magazines, look for color combinations that other people have used in their quilts and choose those colors as a basis for your quilt.

















