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Whether you're only starting or have been quilting for years , its always simple to make a screw up. Be it through inexperience, misjudgement or merely a simple slip up, mistakes can and do occur in the quilting world.

This is quite true when you are working on a green quilt design. To assist in avoid making one of the most common slip ups or to help get out of one if you're in it. It doesn't sound like a huge disaster, nevertheless it can ruin your quilt, and that mistake is :

Selecting the wrong shade of Green.

This is one of the easiest mistakes to make - I should know, I've done it twice!

You start off by getting this image in your head, perhaps its a nice emerald green or pea soup green colored quilt. You purchase the material, map it out and get started.

Then somewhere in the middle, you detect that there are some things wrong with the colour "its too bright, rules the other colors or simply comes out dreary. Either way your green quilt is turning into a monster.

Don't despair - this is an easy problem to solve "all you have to do it introduce another color. In most cases a burgundy or a white colour actually helps out.

If the quilt is too bright, I suggest adding a burgundy pattern or design to it, this will help darken the look of the quilt and bring some warmth to it.

If you find that the green quilt colour isn't to your liking, look at stitching another pattern over the top and turn the undesirable green to an engaging quilt border.

Essentially what you are doing is adding another colour and pattern to take away the negative feeling from the green quilt by adding a complimentary color to modify the feeling.

So there you have it, what seems at first like a unrecoverable mistake can basically save your project and make it into a green quilt you will love!