Color wheel
#11
Power Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,513
The color wheel helps when tying to make a quilt with random fabrics. The pre cut fabric all work together because the colors are the same hue, tint, and colors aren't fighting each other. I have put together some amazing fabric choices. If you take a charm pack of Kaffe Fassett fabric and put each fabric on the color wheel, they all go together even if they seem to contrast and be random.
#12
Member
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 31
I recently purchased the 3 in 1 color tool to help me on a quilt. It was Tula Pink's Buttertfly 2 quilt that uses 46 different fabric. The color tool helped me to match up several fabrics that I just couldn't work out. It's not something that I'll use everyday, but it helped when I needed it.
#13
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 819
Kaffe has an intuitive way with color and probably never uses a color wheel. Neither do I (not that I'm like him) but I'll bet it would speed things up a bit on the color auditioning. That part is pretty fun, though, especially the aha moment.
hugs,
charlotte
hugs,
charlotte
#14
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2021
Posts: 111
For now, I’m still beginner enough to buy precut sets. They’re expensive, but someone else has done the work to ensure it all works.
#17
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2021
Posts: 123
I use a lot of pre-cuts as well. Just started this year with them, even though I've been quilting for a long time. I had always shied away from them before as I would get a mixture of designs in them that I really didn't like, so I thought it was wasteful. But now, I've found that a lot of the sellers show you what is in the pre-cut package and that helps with what I buy. Since then, I got bit by the pre-cut bug! I still use yardage with them as well. I'm also finding with some pre-cuts, that I really like the fabric line and this way, I get a piece or two from the entire line with the pre-cuts. And that really helps with the 'color wheel' idea too, as all the fabric in the pre-cuts already go together!
#19
I have one, and a few other color tools. I've found I rarely use them for picking fabric, but do use them for decorating.
The only time I find them really useful is if someone is picking out the colors and I need to match them up to the fabric, but I rarely make quilts for specific people so don't have to match their color scheme.
I've gotten a lot of good ideas for color combinations by looking at other quilts online, and if I find a color combo I like, I'll keep it in mind until I find a pattern that I think would work with it.
The only time I find them really useful is if someone is picking out the colors and I need to match them up to the fabric, but I rarely make quilts for specific people so don't have to match their color scheme.
I've gotten a lot of good ideas for color combinations by looking at other quilts online, and if I find a color combo I like, I'll keep it in mind until I find a pattern that I think would work with it.