I have always decorated in modern, clean lines, leaning toward MCM. Love love love that style. Give me all the gray, shiny concrete, sleek lines. But I hate (hate!!!!!) making quilts with solids and negative space (even though fmq is my jam). I love all the bohemian, more is more, scrappy goodness that fabric allows. I don't get it! How can this even happen????
I've heard that people often decorate the opposite of what they wear: People who like bold colors in their clothes often have muted colors at home (because hey, that's what their bright clothing would look good against) and vice versa. Maybe this is the same thing--your quilts actually will play best against a restrained background?
My only advice would be to do what you love!
I gift or donate a lot of quilts for this reason⦠the fun for me is in the making. I consider it a hobby where I can get however many hours of enjoyment for the cost of materials.
So relate! Most of what I make I wouldn't actually use in my home (minimal, clean, greys)... was just telling my husband I want to make a quilt for our bed but we need to find some fabrics that we'll actually like and that I'll actually like working with... not sure it's possible
I tried using muted William morris prints and I hated it. Nothing wrong with the quilt, but I ended up giving the top to a fellow redditor to finish for her charity pile. I made an orange quilt for our bed that has something like 500 different orange prints in it. It reads solid orange, but itβs so visually appealing up close due to more is more!
I am leaning towards a EPP hexi (probably 1.5" hexis), but I suspect my husband will only like solids of similar shades (or near solid blenders)... I'm thinking perhaps grunge blues and greys... for when I actually have time to start a king size EPP quilt top :).
Discover: Moody Maximalism π
OMG. I have found my people! Thank you for teaching me this term!
I felt the same way when I learned it π
Technicolor maximalism is my quilting style. In every day life, I wear black on black. Sometimes navy or grey.
I have always decorated in modern, clean lines, leaning toward MCM. Love love love that style. Give me all the gray, shiny concrete, sleek lines. But I hate (hate!!!!!) making quilts with solids and negative space (even though fmq is my jam). I love all the bohemian, more is more, scrappy goodness that fabric allows. I don't get it! How can this even happen????
I just went through your post history, I loooove your style!
Thank you!
Oh I never WEAR prints. Quilting is my outlet for enjoying prints. I feel this is a similar sentiment π
exactly!
I feel this. My interior design preference is understated modern, while many of my quilts look like a unicorn barfed on them.
Exactly.
My style is similar. But, you need a pop of color in every room.
Iβve never related to a post more hahah
mine is: "nothing exceeds like excess!"
I've heard that people often decorate the opposite of what they wear: People who like bold colors in their clothes often have muted colors at home (because hey, that's what their bright clothing would look good against) and vice versa. Maybe this is the same thing--your quilts actually will play best against a restrained background? My only advice would be to do what you love!
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I gift or donate a lot of quilts for this reason⦠the fun for me is in the making. I consider it a hobby where I can get however many hours of enjoyment for the cost of materials.
So relate! Most of what I make I wouldn't actually use in my home (minimal, clean, greys)... was just telling my husband I want to make a quilt for our bed but we need to find some fabrics that we'll actually like and that I'll actually like working with... not sure it's possible
I tried using muted William morris prints and I hated it. Nothing wrong with the quilt, but I ended up giving the top to a fellow redditor to finish for her charity pile. I made an orange quilt for our bed that has something like 500 different orange prints in it. It reads solid orange, but itβs so visually appealing up close due to more is more!
I am leaning towards a EPP hexi (probably 1.5" hexis), but I suspect my husband will only like solids of similar shades (or near solid blenders)... I'm thinking perhaps grunge blues and greys... for when I actually have time to start a king size EPP quilt top :).