I finally washed some greys and here are the choices I am contemplating:<\/p>\n In no particular order, I am posting examples of the backgrounds I am considering. I like the movement of the grey on white batik. It does interfere with the light blue (bottom, center right).<\/p>\n Above is the detail of the Grey on White Batik with only a little\u00a0 bit of other fabric for reference.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is my second favorite. It adds interest. It doesn’t interfere with the foreground fabrics. It isn’t boring.<\/p>\n I wish it weren’t so directional, though I think the directionality wouldn’t interfere with the design of the piecing. I could be wrong.<\/p>\n This my favorite. I love this grey.\u00a0 I have gone on and on about this grey and I am kind of angry that I didn’t realize I loved it when I had the chance to buy 1,000 yards. It is nowhere. I may call P&B and see if they have a bolt they will sell me.<\/p>\n I am worried I am just on the grey bandwagon and will sincerely dislike all of these quilts made with grey in 2 years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How can you not love this grey?<\/p>\n Russian Rubix posts:<\/p>\n Why Should you Care<\/strong>: you should care because of process. My thought process in the making of a quilt will give you some ideas of what to think about when you are making your next quilt. Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again, I am working on the background for the Russian Rubix. I know this seems like more drama than it is worth, but there are a couple of reasons, I am being picky: White seems like an easy choice Solid grey seems too boring and I don’t want to be depressed making it I … Continue reading “Russian Rubix Backgrounds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[310,353,220],"class_list":["post-20411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-color","tag-process","tag-russian-rubix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Grey](\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PICT4046sm.jpg\")
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