Quilts with dark background

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Using dark fabrics in a quilt is amazing because they make the color from the other fabrics pop! While the result is stunning, it's different than working with a lighter background. Read on to discover the tricks I learned while making my All Together Now cover quilt. Tips for Making a Quilt with a Black or Dark Background1. Not all black fabrics are the same. Some have brown undertones, some blue, some green, etc. Hold your other fabrics against the black fabric to see if they work. Better…

Issue 54 of Today's Quilter is on your newsstands tomorrow and it is full to bursting with amazing Christmas projects, so I feel very honoured to have my Winterlilies quilt in such wonderful company. This is such a fun quilt to make: simple enough in its construction for a beginner, but flexible enough in its layout to engage more experienced quilters. The block is based on a traditional log cabin design - with a twist - so I looked to antique log-cabin quilts to inspire some different…

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Dark and Stormy Free Quilt Pattern

Lori pieced this bright and bold quilt using my free pattern called Four Patch Charm Quilt which can be downloaded off my sidebar. Lori used a solid black background to allow the bright batik fabrics to pop! I quilted it with the Mimosa pantograph, used black So Fine thread and Lori brought a Pellon Cotton batting. It was a chilly morning to be out taking quilt pictures in snow. It was -32'c and colder with the windchill!

Beads Quilt Pattern https://www.quilt.today/2021/04/beads-quilt-pattern.html

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There's Good Folks in there, as well as a little Bohemian, Innocent Crush & Garden Party. I used the Over & Under pattern from the Scrap Basket Sensations book, but added 2 rows (8 blocks) to make it rectangular instead of square. Its now 48" x 72". After much debate, my son & I decided to go with no border & to just use the Charcoal Quilters Linen for the binding.

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Pecking Order pattern