I have a flannel that is white with small dalmation pups, red blue and yellow paw prints, and red polk a dot all through out. This is going to be the back of my daughters baby quilt. She loves dogs, so this is the theme I'm doing...I want to do different puppies in blocks on the front pannel. Dalmations are white and black, so the background needs to be a different color. I really like white as the backdrop color, but the puppies wont stand out very well. I do not know if she is having a boy or girl yet (too early). My ? is what color would you choose to embroider the designs on?

I would use a variety of coloured squares depending upon the colours in the design I was stitching. I would be sure to incorporate matching colours from the backing fabric, or if too dark I would use them as narrow bands of colour between the design blocks. Hope this makes sense.

If u do them n white I would use the back to do sashing around ea. sq. Personally I like the idea Meg gives u but I would pick up all the colors on the back for my squares. *

here goes my opinion for what's it worth. I agree to use a variety of colors for the squares on the front of your quilt, bring the red, blue and yellow to the front of the quilt, then if your use your same backing fabric for the binding it will all tie together and look terrific. I'd stay away from pink since girls like blue but boys really don't like anything pink. Macho stuff I guess, either way it's gonna be georgous.....

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by mops 19 Apr 2009

This seems a very good idea to me.

Good answers I would test stitch one and put up against fabric and see what you think. Being a quilter now a days it seems everything goes the wilder the better. Go for it.

OK, here goes, but remember i'm no quilter.

Why not choose very pale pink, blue, green and lemon squares and when you make up the quilt you can make a paatchwork using all four coloured squares????
hugs n roses, Meganne

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by camylow 19 Apr 2009

Do you think the soft lemon will look good with a dalmation?

by designgirl 19 Apr 2009

I agree with Meganne, the soft colours would look nice. You already have yellow in the paw prints so the lemon will look good. Lynn

by meganne 19 Apr 2009

I can't see why pale lemon wouldn't work and you could even forget the pink and blue and just use pale lemon and pale green. Actually for a baby (sex unknown) they would be my choice. hnr, M

If you don't have time to wait to find out the sex of the baby I'd probably use yellow or green in the pastel shades. Why don't you test one block in white as the outline of the dog will probably be dark and may stand out enough for the total design to show up.

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by camylow 19 Apr 2009

I would love to do them in white, but I think it will be toooo much because the backing is mostly white. honest opinion please, do you think the yellow is going to go with all the red and white?