Color wheels and quilting – they just go hand in hand – I carry a paper color wheel in my purse for fabric shopping (you never know when your car may find a quilt shop)! So – why not make yourself one? I used the Fold’n Stitch Bloom pattern to make my rainbow!
We covered pre-cut hexagons in this design.
Michael Miller Fabric’s Cotton Couture is a great basic for your stash- there are 214 colors and the fabric is silky smooth!
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I have done so many projects with Hash Dot - it adds some spunk when you need it!
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I chose to use Cotton Couture for my appliques and the back of the shapes and Hash Dot for the front of the shapes (what looks like the binding).
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Back to art class:
ROYGBIV is an acronym for the sequence of hues that make up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This sequence dictates my color choices. Because there are 10 hexagons in the Bloom, I inserted some of my favorites as well – coral, acid green and turquoise (yummy) to round out my choices.
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A few notes on my Bloom - I chose to use a navy Aurifil 50wt thread to match the back of the hexagons. You could choose a contrasting thread if you like. I used silver seed beads to connect my petals - I think silver complements all of the colors.
Now I have a tool that I can use to create color combinations! Looking at the Color Wheel Bloom – I can see:
- Complementary – Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel (turquoise and coral)
- Split Complement – A color and the 2 colors next to it’s complement on the color wheel (pink and green and yellow)
- Analogous – Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel (green, turquoise and blue)
Happy stitching!
-Kris
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