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Sometimes we love the quilts we make and sometimes we don't. Even though this isn't my favorite Christmas quilt in the house, my husband liked it and wanted to keep it. I'm using it on our bed as an extra top because I backed it with minky fleece. It's super soft and warm!
Why don't I love it? The directions for the Plaid-ish quilt tell you to separate your fabrics into values. You can see my fabic piles of light, mid, and dark. She mentions that this is very important, so I tried many times, moving the fabric from one pile to the next and turning the photos to black and white so I could check the value.
I thought that I had done a good job and would get those plaid rows in my quilt. But after making the quilt, it seems the darks are not dark enough to stand out. I love this fabric line, but my quilt is a bit too busy for my taste.
I had bought binding fabric, but my choice, the polka-dot print, didn't look good. So I found a black cross-hatch print that worked out nicely.
The quilt is growing on me and it might even make it to a spot on the couch. We'll see. Here's its spotlight photo next to the tree.
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