starting Judy Niemeyer pattern

[chickenscratch]

I am going to start on Garden for my Wedding Ring. It is the first JN pattern I have ever attempted, but I have been told it is pretty easy to do. I have always wanted to make a DWR, so this is a good pattern for me.

 

Couple of quick questions. 

These are the fabrics I have chosen. It said choose 8 going from light to dark.  Do you like them together?

 

 

 

And, does anybody have 1/2 yard of this one from Hancock fabrics?  I bought it two summers ago.

[ffq-lar]

Hi Teresa. The JN patterns work well with tone-on-tones, batiks, and mottled fabrics. If you plan to use a print you need to be careful with scale and variations of color. Your seventh fabric might not work well. With so many colors and a larger-scale print like that, if cut into smaller pieces for paper piecing, it will read all pink, or all aqua, or all gray. If you cut carefully it might work, but figure out what you like about it or what color you think will work best and find a smaller scale print or a mottled fabric that fills those wishes. Just a thought---and if you stitch a sample block, what you have may be just right.

 

The rest of your fabrics read mottled or solid from several feet away. Which one will be your center fabric?

 

edited---I looked on line at the pattern and some beautiful quilts were made with the small-scale florals a la colorwash quilts. Beautiful! That said, I still think your large-scale floral might not work well--depends on the size of the pieces.

[chickenscratch]

I was wondering about that one.  I have another one that I can use, but it is a brighter pink and doesn't blend as well with the others.  I haven't cut them all yet, just trying to decide. The only one I have cut is the one I need.  I went ahead and cut those so I could see how short I was.  I need 120 pieces. I got 99 out of my fabric I had on hand. 

 

If I can't find another piece of that fabric then I will have to make a smaller quilt, or substitute some mottled purple for that one here and there.  It probably wouldn't be too noticeable if it was scattered out.

[Zora]

To me, the character of the first fabric doesn't go with the others. I would choose something different for that one. The thing about this quilt that makes it special to me, is the subtle change from light to dark. Working with batiks is much easier for these JN patterns because they don't ravel. I tend to agree with Linda on the large print. I might also rearrange the order of the fabrics. Several seem very simular in value. If you aren't trying to recreate the fading from dark to light along the arcs, they are fine....but I am still not liking the small black floral.