Two comments and thanks to jake at Gen Q magazine I have two copies to send out.
Ladies I have sent an email for your address.
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Summer Fun!
Have you seen the new GenQ magazine? I have a free copy thanks to Jake for a giveaway.
Right now the magazine is single copy since this is the premier issue. So if you just can’t wait to find it in your local quilt shop head over to generationqmagazine.com for own copy.
Also Luana and Paul of eQuilter.com have put out the call in their July 15, 2012 newsletter for quilts to go for those who have experience loss in the recent Colorado wildfires. If you would like to bless some of the people of Colorado , send a quilt on or before August 20, 2012 to
eQuilter
5455 Spine Rd, Suite E
Boulder CO 80301
I can only imagine the comfort of being wrapped in a quilt made by someone who cares.
Check out the Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild blog at:
http://minneapolismodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/
Do you think the new neutral will remain a grey? Or do you think we will move towards brown or tans?
Leave a comment for the magazine giveaway. The contest ends Midnight 7/27/2012 CST.
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The Color Study series is not over – but summer – aka. life is in the way.
DH and I took a quick trip to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While there, we thought to include the Blue Ridge Parkway to drive north and see Shenandoah National Park. Seeing at least one new National Park each year is on our bucket list. And this trip did not disappoint. That area of the US is beautiful. I have never been an east coast girl, but I fell in love with the Smokies.
Look at how those hills roll on into the distance. Yes, I have been touched by some Carolina Kentucky envy.
In the podcast I mentioned the cute jet squirrel – here he is:
Sorry there is glass reflection in that photo. And they scattered after the picture.
My new books –
If you would like to add any of these to your quilt library click below:
Modern Quilting by Gering and Pedersen
Modern Patchwork by Hartman
Denyse Schmidt Modern Quilts
We Love Color
I have already made one quilt from one of the above books. And I’ll show that in a future post.
Enjoy the summer. I’ll resume the Color Study series soon.
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Value is the color scale from white to black.
Although we can easily distinguish about 9 differing values from white to black. But in fabric we probably use only 6 or 7 steps from white to black.
White
Ash
Medium gray
Coal
Charcoal
Pepper
Black
Here is what I have from my Kona color card. It is easy to distinguish value with white through black. When these values move to the hues the distinguishing might become more challenging.
Tints Using Yellow for my example. Adding white the hue will become pale, pastel, delicate and softer. Yellow stars as the lightest pure hue so there are very few steps between it and pure white.
Shades When black is added to yellow it becomes mustardy. And with more black it becomes like the color of a green olive. Shades are shadowy, fall like, considered evening or masculine colors.
Tones And if you add gray it is called toned. But sometimes adding the color opposite on the color wheel will make the hue grayed. These are neutralized, aired and dry.
Value is often what helps us understand the pattern of a quilt top. If your fabric up on the design wall seems to be missing something, the first question to ask is–
Are there distinct values differences within the design?
Pure colors will advance in color relationships compared to tones or shades. And pure Yellow will advance more than Violet. Knowing this means only a small amount of Yellow will be needed to balance to a larger amount of Violet. Like wise, only a small amount of pure Violet will pop against a larger amount of a toned or shaded hue.
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I have the Kona color wheel under way.
I plan to develop this more with tints, shades and tones of the colors. Those samples will be smaller, maybe as dots or smaller diamonds around the wheel.
For those who are interested I simply appliqued the colors onto a white background.
But next time we need to develop our white to black scale. Do you have fabric that ranges from white to black? Ideally we need nine steps in hue. I think I have to go shopping!
Speaking of shopping…
Have you heard Robert Kauffman Kona will have new colors coming out in June 2012? I think they will have a supplement color card available too.
Are you making a color wheel? Would you be interested in working in a series experimenting with color?
Please post a comment with your favorite color.
Bye til next time.
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A Fabric Color Wheel is very helpful when choosing which color would add just the right pop to your quilt top. Here is an old fabric color wheel I have:
Here is how to make one:
Take a square of background fabric. I am using black for my background. And I am making it large enough so I can add more than just the 12 pure colors of the color wheel.
So divide your background up into 12 divisions. Think of a clock face and label where you will want each color to go. You can use a glue stick or machine applique the color patches in place.
Here are the colors I am using from my Kona Solids
Position Color Name Kona Name
12:00 Yellow Canary
1:00 Yellow Green Lime
2:00 Green Clover
3:00 Blue Green Cyan
4:00 Blue Pacific
5:00 Blue Violet Lapis
6:00 Violet Purple
7:00 Red Violet Cerise
8:00 Red Cardinal
9:00 Red Orange Tomato
10:00 Orange Tangerine
11:00 Yellow Orange Papaya
So here are my Kona colors I first had on hand. I am actually going to go with the colors I have listed above.
I plan on leaving a bit of room in my color wheel to add colors to the half hour position, such as 12:30 and so on. And I might want to add darker shades or lighter tints too.
We’ll see how it goes. But I am excited about this project. And I expect to learn alot.
Leave a comment if you are paying along or have a question.
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Thanks to everyone who made suggestions for the quilters alphabet in PBQ022.
If you are new to quilting and you like the modern graphic look, you would enjoy making a quilt or two from Alissa Haights Carlton’s new book Modern Minimal.
The quilts are made with solid colors and she includes suggestions for quilting with your machine. After having done a quilt or two in this book any beginner sewist will be ready to venture into their own design.
I have a Kona Color card by Robert Kaufman.
I will be using it in future podcasts as I go through my Color Study exercises. If you want to join along you would find it helpful to have one.
And it helps select which solid color fabric will play best with a particular print you are planning to use in a quilt. I highly recommend having one. If you have problems getting one just let me know.
I am currently on the hunt for two last colors I still need for my fabric color wheel which I will share next time.
Is there something you would like to study in regard to fabric color? Leave a comment.
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If you think of a quilt related suggestion leave a comment!
A is for Applique
B is for Blocks and Borders and Batting
C is for Cutting Mat
D is for design – thanks Colleen
E is for E is for Embellishment – thanks AJ
F is for Fabric
G is for Guilds
H is for Hexagons and Hoops
I is for Irons
J is for Joy from quilting – thanks Gretchen
K is for K could be for knee-lift on the Bernina system. My K is for my daughter Katie, who asked me to make her a quilt and launched me back into quilting last year. And, of course, K could be for the Kona Solids — Thanks Torie
L is for Label on the back
M is for Marking tools
N is for Needles
O is for Open toe foot – thanks Laura
P is for Patchwork and Pins and Paper Piecing – thanks Gretchen
Q is for Quilt books and patterns and Quarter inch seams
R is for Rulers and Rotary Cutters
S is for Scissors, Sewing Machine. Scraps and Stash
T is for Thimbles and Threads and templates – thanks Gretchen
U is for UFO’s unfinished Objects
V is for value – thanks Colleen
W is for Wholecloth quilts and Walking foot
X is for How about X is for measurements; i.e. a fat quarter is 18 x 21? Or maybe X is for the X-ray vision used by Quilt Show judges when they judge a submission? Or how about X is for the Xanax that we do not have to take because we are in quilt-therapy? thanks Tori
Y is for Y seams
Z is for Zeal -thanks Gretchen
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A short explanation.
Here is a current list of my active projects. I don’t count UFO’s.
no change til April — The pic was in my Mar 5 post.
You can still join this Block of the Month group. Here are my first three months of blocks. To check it out go to http://www.craftsy.com
At that site click on the online classes tab, then scroll down to the free BOM button.
This week I got some of the blocks done But I’m not loving the orange. I think I might start over and use blue in place of the orange.
I might like this better with the blue. Hope to get a few of them done this week.
So this is actually becoming a series study in color.
This will be a larger bed size quilt. It starts with four red inner stars. I expect this to be a several month long project.
This week I cut out the rest of the star background batik and the inner purple batik for the stars.
You can see that i keep in process projects in an art bin. I got this from Joann Fabrics. It is so handy when I am going to take a project to retreat or class. It is all there, just need to grab rotary cutter, mat and a few other thing and I am ready to go.
Week one is done. Here is a pic of block one. Today I start block 5 (which is week two).
You can get the details from Sara on her blog Sew Sweetness.
Thanks for stopping by.
