I’m so excited! I’ve created a tutorial on Making a Quilter’s Color Wheel, and you can click on the slidecast here to view it. This took me a couple days to do: an afternoon to shoot the photos and another day to make the slideshow, record the audio, upload and troubleshoot.
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Hi Maria,
You visited my blog last week or so and left a lovely comment. I immediately dropped by your blog and registered for email updates! I look forward to trying the Color Wheel tutorial and following your creative process. Great to meet you!!!
I was looking for a way to select the rainbow colors that I want to use for my next quilt, and this tutorial provided the perfect answer! I can’t wait to try this technique.
Thanks for this tut, Maria. I needed help, especially with the Tertiaries, as you said! (I found you thru SMSew’s blog, by the way.)
I’ll be back for more – I may just make a Color Wheel and show you.
Thanks for sharing.
Suzanne G in NC
Maria,
Thank you for this tutorial. I’m going to go through my stash and make one up!!
Eileen –
Good luck on your color wheel. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is and how your stash is reflected back to you on the page. Let us hear back from you after your color wheel is done!
Maria
Thank you so much for this great slide show. You made it very easy to understand, and as Suzanne said, I needed help with the Tertiary colors. Thanks again!
Great tutorial. You make it very simple and straight forward, I like that. Where can I find your colorwheel chart to download? thank so much!
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Thanks for you tutorial. When I did mine, I had a hard time finding colors that didn’t include red, and fabrics that didn’t have florals…Now I know I really need to make myself buy some plain fabrics and some geometrics!!
Thank you so much for the color wheel tutorial. Picking the color scheme of my quilts is the part I find most difficult. I am hurrying to my local quilt store to pick up your book. I am sure it will help me to become less color-challenged.
Maria:
I’d like your permission to tell my students about your website and your tutorial on making your own “Color Wheel.”
I lecture on color and found your site to be full of great information.
Thanks!
Mary-Anne
Can I have a “Color Wheel” mail to me. I am a beginner at quilting and I am having a hard time blending my fabric colors. My mother and I are going to watch your Quilter’s Color Wheel Tutorial in a minute.
Your website is very educational.
Hi Maria,
I’m new to quilting. Love to quilt hate shopping for new fabric. Having a hard time blending my fabric colors.
Loved your tutorial on the Color Wheel what a helpful tool.
Just a question. How much of a partical color should you include in your quilt? Is there a formula? I will pick up your book in my favorite store. I’m sure it will help me become less color challengend. Great job. Thanks again,and thanks to Jodie Davis for telling me about you.
Hi Anita – you ask a great question! We hear a lot about how to choose colors but not so much on how much of each color to use. That’s a big part of any quilt is getting the right balance of each color so one doesn’t overwhelm the others. I recommend a guideline painters use (I do this in my watercolor paintings) called the “Three Bears Rule of Color,” and the Renaissance quilt project in Color Mastery incorporates it into the fabrics you select. It’s a 6-fat quarter quilt and an easy way to learn both what colors to use and how much of each to get just the right harmony. Good luck and let me know how you do with it!
Hi Maria. I just found your tutorial and I am making color wheels like crazy. I made small ones for my purse, quilt tote and laptop bag, a larger one for classes and retreats, and a beautiful one like a wreath for my sewing room wall! Just wanted to say thanks.
Lesa
JustPlainLaine.com
Lesa – glad you’ve caught the color wheel excitement! I’d love to share your color wheels with my readers, so send some photos to me at maria [at] colormastery.com and I’ll post them here on the blog.