Friday, May 9, 2014
Background Colour
I went through my fabric stash this morning and tried different fabrics behind the 'Under An African Sky' doily. I won't show you them all, but here's a selection:
The funny thing is, red looks alright in real life, but horrible on screen, whereas mint green looks fine here, but I didn't like it in reality. I've settled on cream. Rather a safe choice, but in looks fine in both versions and doesn't detract from any of the colours of the doily. I've prepared the fabric by sewing running stitch to mark eighths, so I can block the doily carefully to be sure the segments are all the same. So don't take too much notice of the wobbly look here!
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none of them appear mint green on my monitor! - but I think I like the bottom picture best. The red just swallows it up.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny that each monitor can show such a difference in color? I find the red a bit distracting, but the other two look very restful to me.
ReplyDeleteI like the top one, this doily is so wonderful! Mint green? Really? I doesn't look like mint on my computer, it's almost a forest green!
ReplyDeleteI forgot how cute that is, glad you posted it, it really is nice and I do that too and found most of the time that light nuetral colors work alot.
ReplyDeleteI'm for the top!
ReplyDeleteI like the top one out of the three
ReplyDeleteMargaret
Il must say That I l'île the top too;-)
ReplyDeleteThis is a vers nice work