It’s Cindy reporting in today with a yellow dilemma. I’m getting ready to join my Grandmother’s Flower Garden Blocks and I have two yellow prints to choose from.
In keeping with my 30’s inspired blocks, both prints are designed by Darlene Zimmerman. The print below is called “Sunshine Garden” and it has triangles surrounded by tiny dots in a random pattern. It’s a gold/yellow print on a white background.
My next print is called “Southern Belles” and it has teeny, tiny x’s and o’s in structured rows and columns. It’s also a gold/yellow print on a white background.
So…I need your opinion on which print looks best. Do I go with:
A. “Sunshine Garden”
or
B. “Southern Belles”
I’ve got plenty of each fabric so I can use one print for the front and one print for the backing.
Thanks for keeping me on task…I vow to finish this quilt this year…well, I mean hopefully this year…I’d better get to work and start making hexagons!
I am going to opt for Southern Belles!
Thanks, Lori! The smaller print is nice!
I really like Sunshine Garden.
It is bright…just like sunshine!
Oh, tough choice – I think I like Southern Belles best.
Thanks, Wendy! It looks like an even vote so far!
I do like them both!
Me too…that’s why I can’t make up my mind!
B southern belles. A seems a bit busy for a background.
Thanks, Mary! Good point…Southern Belles is a bit calmer.
I think A is the best choice – both for color and design.
Random background for random prints!
A
Thanks, Sandy! Sunshine Garden for a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt…it might be the winner!
I like “A” also..hugs, Julierose
Julie, thank you…it is definitely the front runner!
A
Thank you, Brenda!
Hi Cindy! My vote is for Sunshine Garden, too. Whichever one you choose will be fabulous, though. They both match well – it just depends on what look you want. {{Hugs}} ~smile~ Roseanne
Yes, do I want to go random or structured? Thanks for weighing in on this!
Sunshine Gardens makes me smile.
How can we not smile at a fabric called Sunshine Gardens?
They are both equally pretty, but I think #2 would let your hexagons show up better, Just my opinion.
I was thinking about this as well. I don’t want the fabric to take away from the hexagons which are very colorful and were a lot of work. I appreciate this thought, thank you!
A is better
I appreciate your comment, it does look like A is the winner.
A
Thank you, Judith!
I also go with B- the first one is so bright it doesn’t let the flowers glow. Just my opinion.
Thank you, Barb! The flowers took a lot of time so I want to be sure they are the focal point!
southern gardens looks best
sorry I meant sunshine gardens
Got it! Thanks!
Oooh . . . tough choice, but I think I’d go with Sunshine Garden!
Thanks, Diana! I think it’s the winner.
Sunshine Garden immediately appealed to me 🙂
I think they are both nice but I like choice a best
Sunshine Gardens co-ordinates with the look of the 30’s prints and pattern. If you can’t decide, I’d go with that. Pretty. How far are you on it in the past 2 weeks?