8 Beautiful Ways to Use Blue-Green in Your Color Palette

8 Beautiful Ways to Use Blue-Green in a Color Palette August 2010 Color-of-the-Month presented by Maria Peagler, author of Color Mastery

Ocean blue-greens were my inspiration for this table runner. I found a fabulous fabric looking like seaweed, with greens, teals and a light greenish-yellow. I pulled other ocean colored fabrics and came up with this refreshing and bright sea-inspired runner.
— Sarah Whitney Sweet Clover Canyon
http://www.sweetclovercanyon.com
1. Get Inspired by Nature

2. Use Pre-Cuts
"Under the Sea uses the Neptune fabric line from Moda, with a WOW from P&B Textiles, to offset the Half-Log Cabin with a big center. Set on point, the show block sings!

This pattern is in my new book, Fast Forward Quilts , which has all quilts made using pre-cut packages + some!"
— Pat Sloan http://patsloan.biz/patsloansfastforwardquilts.aspx

3. Calm Other Colors

"Blue-green is one of my favourite colours. I’ve used blue-green to represent water, and thus it becomes a calm, tranquil colour in this quilt."
— Marcy Horswill
http://www.sunflowerdesign.ca/quilts.html

4. Use Blue-Green as an Accent

"I use blue-green to accent many of my designs. This color adds a bright, yet subtle, pop to a quilt. For my Kaleidoscope Symphony quilt, I used Maywood's Dab of Jazz collection designed by Gail Fountain."
— Marilyn Foreman www.QuiltMoments.com

5. Let a Designer Do the Work

"Collect pieces of your favourite quilt fabrics and simply join together to make this funky bed quilt. Add some circles for interest and spunk! In Born Dotty, I used large scale prints from Amy Butler. Choose from a collection so all of the colour choice is done for you. Then just choose one colour to bring them all together for balance. You simply cannot go wrong!"
— Helen Stubbings Miss M Patterns

6. Combine Panels with Piecing

"Diamonds & Squares uses fussy cut Flying Geese panels pieced with "x" blocks. Fabric designed by Yolanda Fundora."
— Barbara Campbell http://www.loveinstitches.com

7. Enhance Design with Threads

“ I live on the Emerald Coast of FL and I incorporated blue-green colors to look like the waters of the gulf (before the oil spill). I used blue and green metallic thread for quilting to give it a shiny watery look. The green plant is the nesting area for the sea horses. I call it Horse of a Different Color ."
— Nan Baker Purrfect Spots

8. Mix Tradition with Trend

"I combined my love of 19th century four-block applique quilts with the hottest blue-greens of 2010. Petite Pineapple's spare palette of teal, aqua, brown, and cream spotlights the pineapples, dogtooth border, and freemotion echo quilting."
— Maria Peagler
Petite Pineapples pattern & kit
Color-of-the-Month series

For more information on using blue-green in your quilt’s color palette, check out Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts , available at your local quilt shop, Amazon , and the online store . Winner of a Benjamin Franklin Best Craft Book of 2010 award.

Look for Maria’s latest book, The Frugal Fabriholic: Your 12-Step Plan for Saving More for Your Quilting Stash, available at Amazon’s Kindle store, the iPad bookstore, and Smashwords.com

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8 Beautiful Ways to Use Blue-Green in Your Color Palette

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