Good lighting when quilting

**homesteadmamma** · 01-03-2003, 05:28 PM

Just as with every other hobby, lighting plays an important part in quilting.

- if you don't have proper lighting, you won't see the material under the ruler and won't get accurate cuts.

- having proper lighting will help in making your color combinations and won't dull your colors. Its like art, proper lighting always needs to be their for proper color effects. Same with quilting. A red print might look like a dark pink and so you'll try to match a dark pink, when all the time the material was red. It does happen if you don't have proper lighting.

- having proper lighting will also help from cutting your fingers and if you happen to drop a safety pin, you'll be able to see it before your foot does!!

Just some tips to help making quilting easier.

**Mom23boys** · 01-03-2003, 08:16 PM

Thanks CJ! I need all the advice I can get.

**Michelle** · 01-03-2003, 08:50 PM

Have any of you seen those lights at Joann's? There's one set up in my store with "regular" home light and the light that the one they sell offers, the colors of the fabric under the lights is quite different. Amazing really. I need to get some new lighting in my craft room. I have lights that cast shadows over my fabric...I need to get some on the other side of my cutting table.

Ok, I'm rambling here....

**homesteadmamma** · 01-03-2003, 10:17 PM

Michelle, I've never seen one because we don't have a JoAnn's but how I learnt that lighting really makes a difference is at a craft sale I was inl.

About 4 years ago, a lady had knitted a beautiful hat and when someone wanted to purchase it, she said I love this hat, but it doesn't match my coat. The craft person said, take it outside and you'll get the true color. When she came back in she couldn't believe the difference in color. In the room where we were having the craft sale, the lights were dim and it was in the gym of a school. The shade of the hat was almost 2 shades different than the true color when taken outside!!!

Since then, I always double check when I purchase material. I move it around in different places in the store and then I work where I have proper lighting because your right, it really does make a difference.