When it Doesn't Work

 

I made a few gray and those jewel toned blocks and put them up on the design wall. I wasn't too thrilled. It would have been "okay" but nothing special. I always tell my students that when we get it right, we know right away. When it doesn't work at all, we usually know that too, but it's that in-between time when we are not sure that is the hard part. In this case it simply fell flat. 

So if I want to use the jewel toned colors of purple, blue and green, I'll need another color other than gray. Creams and whites with colors would also work, as shown above.

The grays with lights would work also, but I'm not much interested in making a mostly gray quilt.

This is a detail of Partly Sunny, the quilt Julie made for me. Yellows would be a great pair with the grays. It would also be a quilt I could use as a table quilt when I display the Partly Sunny quilt in the living room.

So I pulled warm yellows out of my stash, and will use those.

Now I am excited!