What's on the Design Wall

What’s On the Design Wall: So Much Color!

tierneycreates: a fusion of textiles and smiles

Hmmm…

I did not realize the scope of the project when I decided to do it…

This is a follow up to the post Color Sorting, in which I share my plans to make a Color Wheel out of fabric scraps like in the book Quilt Color Workshop by T. Bruecher, B. Greenberg, L. Goldsworthy, and J. Adams (2014), that I borrowed from the library.

I didn’t realize how ambitious this project would be when I decided to create the Color Wheel to use as a teaching resource when I teach an art quilting workshop in September 2024.

I’ve finally completed sorting 8 different scraps for each of 12 colorways to create the quilt, and it is all up on my design wall:

It took a long time to get to this point and it involved a lot of fabric scrap archeological digging through my fabric scrap collection!

I started with reds, purples and oranges using this box of scraps:

By the time I got to greens and blues, which I saved until the end, I was coughing from fabric scrap dust!

I feel like I really know the color wheel now after a couple days of working on this project. I feel like I’ve lived and breathed (literally) the color wheel in fabric!

If you are curious how the colors breakdown, or want a refresher, here you go:

PRIMARY COLORS

  • Red (R)
  • Yellow (Y)
  • Blue (B)

SECONDARY COLORS

  • Orange (O)
  • Green (G)
  • Violet/Purple (V)

TERTIARY COLORS

  • Red-Orange (RO)
  • Yellow-Orange (YO)
  • Yellow-Green (YG)
  • Blue-Green (BG)
  • Blue-Violet (BV)
  • Red-Violet (RV)

I’ve labeled them on my Design Wall image below:

Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange and Blue-Violet took me a long time to figure out. I thought I knew color but I did not know/understand Tertiary Colors as much as I thought I did.

It was a good, even if painful at times, exercise to complete.

Now I need to iron all those scraps, cut them to the size in the pattern, sew each set of the 12 sets of 8 strips together and use a 30 degree ruler to cut them into wedges.

The order you see the individual strips arranged in might change as I refine the order of the fabric strips for each of the 12 colorways.

I am hoping to eventually get the fabric scrap lint out of my lungs…

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Quilter, crafter, obsessive tea drinker and lover of all furry creatures (especially dogs and cats) - join me on my tierneycreates blog as I share stories from "A Crafter's Life".

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