3 color quilt blocks how to#
3 color quilt blocks Patch#

3 color quilt blocks Patch#

Have fun with prints, use a mix of prints and solids or even make this scrappy! It’s fun to use a design for the center squares, or combine this quilt block with other nine patch quilt blocks that have the same finished dimensions. Here I’ve selected one (1) light value fabric, one (1) dark value fabric and two (2) medium value fabrics. TIP: Select fabrics with different values for a successful finished quilt block. You’ll be using four (4) fabrics for this quilt block. Here’s a handy diagram to show you the fabrics used in this block. This star quilt block is quick and easy to make, suitable for beginners. It is a nine-patch layout quilt block, using square blocks and quarter square triangle blocks made with three (3) colors. Move over, Napoleon Dynamite.Īs you can see, our members got ’em! Color mastery can be learned and eyes can be trained to see colors better.The Variable Star Quilt Block is a variation of the Ohio Star quilt block, using four (4) fabrics instead of just two (2) fabrics. An analogous color harmony creates movement by using light and dark values of blues, greens and teal.Ĭolor is so much fun – and rewarding – when you’ve got skills. created a vibrant analogous color harmony in blues and dark purple.

Bonnie B.’s spin on a tetradic color harmony. Playful Color Quilt Guild member, Karen S., used four colors and their shades and tints forming a split complementary color harmony. Greens and violets are striking opposites on a color wheel, forming a complementary color harmony.

Marilyn played with three color harmonies: analogous, monochromatic and complementary. Violet and red are across the color wheel from green, forming a split complementary color harmony. is this month’s challenge winner in the Playful Color Quilt Guild. OUr members tell the story – Color Harmonies get the gloryĬan you identify the color harmonies shown in their beautiful blocks below?Īre you excited about the possibilities of quilting in color? Becoming color-confident? Learn more here… Roxanne H. Thanks to color wheel inventor Sir Isaac Newton, choosing colors for your quilt is less guesswork and more fun. Commonly known color combinations are primary (red, yellow and blue), complementary (red/green, blue/orange, yellow/violet) and monochromatic (all the same tints and shades of one color) lesser known but equally powerful are analogous, triad, tetrad, split complementary and square.īottom line: Choosing colors based on these combinations will make your quilts sing the Hallelujah Chorus or Pharrell Williams’ Happy. Thanks to Newton, the first scientist knighted by the Queen of England, choosing colors for your quilt is less guesswork and more fun with a color wheel.Ĭolor harmonies are color combinations based on a color wheel. Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of calculus and the law of gravity, also created the color wheel. Get ready for some eye-popping color! START WITH A Color Wheel Then, they took a giant leap around the color wheel with this month’s challenge: Choose a color harmony and make a sample quilt block with your personal color palette. Going a step further, they created a personal color palette – colors that make you happy to see them – and used them in color combinations.

3 color quilt blocks how to#

Recently our Playful Color Quilt Guild members learned how to create color harmonies using a color wheel. We say a big “Yes, please!” to creating colorful quilts with the time, money and love we’ve invested into a beloved hobby. You’re not sure why or how to fix it.ĭing! Ding! We have a road map to color mastery in the Playful Color Quilt Guild, where color confidence is our goal. Like sewing a bunch of quilt blocks and realizing the colors are off. You know when it sounds bad, but which campers are croaking off key?! When your quilts lack color harmonies, it’s like a four-part, out-of-tune rendition of Row Row Row Your Boat at summer camp. Color harmonies are Like a chorus, where Colors SING NOTES together in Perfect pitch.