Heather Thomas

Choosing Between Black and White Quilt Backgrounds

Heather Thomas
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Heather Thomas demonstrates how to efficiently determine what color you want your quilt background to be. Find out how important that negative space is for your finished quilt. See what happens when you use black or white with certain colors. Use these tips to best choose the background color that will behave the way you want it to.

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4 Responses to “Choosing Between Black and White Quilt Backgrounds”

  1. Adela Jackson

    Good thoughts and great illustration.

  2. Jenny

    Excellent visual presentations--especially with black/white and white/gray backgrounds on same example. Thanks!

  3. alison m

    Excellent clear teaching as always. Really useful extra info re tones which I hadn't come across before. Thanks for doing all those samples!!

  4. Teresita Campiño Bravo

    Congratulations, very cute the proyecctos give us an idea of ​​the total design change. thanks

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