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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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dreaming up a dream on quilt

I have a Moda Dream On charm pack that pushed its way to the front of the project queue last night.  I absolutely love the fabrics, but the finished projects I’ve seen on flickr have left me a little bummed out and stumped on how to use them.  They have a vintage tablecloth/bedsheet look to them, but all on their own or matched with white they end up washing out.  I think in person that might be neat and it certainly goes with the look of the individual fabrics, but I want them to sing.  I want a little pop.  I spent a few minutes last night pairing them with different solids and dreaming up different patterns and I think I know where to go with them.  Here they are with their solid sisters.  I think the vibrancy of the solids will help the Dream On charm squares pop and keep the overall quilt from looking washed out.

Kona cotton solids from left to right: bright pink, [I think this next one is just ‘pink’ but I’m not sure], cactus, sage, canary, slate [I’m 90% sure], and school bus.  The background (for sashing/borders) is kona coal.

crushed dreams » Stolen Moments - […] fabrics looked great together in their initial try-out, but last night my attempt at harmony looked more like an epic fail.  I slept on it, and this […]