Quilters Companion

A Question of Colour

One of the things I’m asked about most often is colour and how to put together colour schemes or fabrics for my quilts. So this month, let’s discuss colour!

Most of the time when we talk about colour, we’re told to get a colour wheel and start looking at complementary, triadic or analogous colour schemes. Of course that is a fundamental of colour and a fantastic way to put them together, but personally I feel that quilts are much more personal. Quilting is a craft, an art form, and a successful quilt colour scheme is more about the ‘feel’ of the colours than about theory.

So for

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