My quilt guild issued a color challenge this year. Make a block each month in the color revealed at the meeting. Instead of just making, say, an orange block, I used the color wheel to work with the challenge color. I decided to make crazy quilted hearts.
One month, the color was orange. Using an analogous color scheme, I created this:
Analogous means the colors are next to each other on a color wheel. To one side of orange is red-orange; on the other side is yellow-orange.
The next month the color was light blue. Using a triadic color scheme, where three colors are evenly spaced around the color wheel, I created this heart:
Instead of light blue, I used light blue-green with light red-violet and light yellow-orange (peach).
The next color was yellow and I decided to go monochromatic. That’s using the hue, tint and shade of yellow.
Next color was purple, or as it’s known on the color wheel, violet. A split-complementary scheme was used. A complementary color would be directly across from the main color, like red & green or blue & orange; classic color combos. To split the complementary means to use the color on either side of the complementary color. Purple has a complement of yellow, instead of yellow, I used yellow-orange and yellow-green.
Next was dark green. Green is made by mixing blue and yellow. I used blue-green fabrics and green fabrics and embellished with golden yellow.
Pink was next, which was not appealing to many guild members. I love pink! Well, some pink. I chose dusty pinks, which is pink that has been toned down (gray has been added). I decided to use ecru, which is a “dusty” cream.
Red was up next. I used primary colors (red, yellow, blue). Well, shades of primary colors (shades are achieved by adding black).
Dark blue was next (dark blue is a shade of blue) and I chose shades of analogous colors blue-violet and blue-green.
The final color was light green. I went with tints of split complementary colors red-violet and red-orange ( what I call deep peach).
Now, to decide how to put them together! The black squares that the hearts are sewn onto will finish to 8”.
