Help with Choosing Colour with Valerie Nesbitt
Classes with Valerie Nesbitt • Educational, G, 01-May-2014
Choosing fabrics is either one of your favourite pastimes or a nightmare and that’s possibly why pre-selected bundles and the pre-cuts (such as jelly rolls, nickle packs, layer cakes etc) are proving so popular. The work has been done for you.
If you fall in love with a bundle you are drawn by the colour, but if you have to select fabrics for a project this can be a little more difficult. Well here is a quick tip that might help and is often right there on the edge of your feature fabric.
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