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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO PRINT MIXING

Each month, our expert Paula Steel will show you how to make a project using a new and exciting technique!

Gain confidence in mixing prints so you can feel at ease when you’re piecing a project with various fabrics from your stash. You may be mixing prints from different collections, different designers or you may have prints in various different colours. The main aim is always to achieve some contrast within the pattern; we also want the colours to complement each other. Paula has made simple sixteen square patches with a checkerboard look to illustrate how the two different methods offer that contrast.

HOW TO MIX PRINTS

COLOUR GROUPING

Colour can be divided in many ways. You can

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