I need your valued opinions! I’m deliberating as to which version of the color wheel to include in an appendix in the back of my book: a fabric color wheel, or the illustration. Which do you prefer and would find more useful? The appendix will have a sheet of mini-color wheels you can cut out and paste into your journal as you’re designing your quilts. Fun, huh?
I’ll draw from the votes and award five people a bookmark for the book that has a ruler on the back. Quite handy for measuring seams, etc. Thanks for participating. I value your input!
I find the fabric wheel much more useful. The illustration it’s easier to find but the fabric wheel should help to make the passage from theory to practical work.
I think the fabric wheel would be much more useful when making the transition from theory to practical work. The illustration you can find easily but the fabric example is so much more rare.
(sorry if my comment appears twice but the first time I tried to leave it I received an error message.)
Although it is interesting to see a colour wheel made up with real fabrics, as a tool I prefer the colour wheel on the right. (Only I would reverse the order of hues and spin the yellow around to the top so that it is the same orientation and order as the fabric wheel: yellow, yellow-orange, orange etc)
Is there a reason you can’t include both? And I agree with Brenda - both wheels (if included) should go in the same direction and start at the same point (e.g. yellow at the top). If pushed, I’d prefer the fabric one as the other is easily found elsewhere.
I agree with Brenda - the illustrated color wheel rather than the fabric one. And spin its orientation so that yellow is at “12 o’clock”.
I prefer the fabric one. But it appears the votes are split and both might be helpful. Have you thought of overlaying/overlapping the fabric wheel just inside the illustrated one? Where the fabric is an actual example of that particular hue. This is much harder to try and explain than I anticipated. Hmm.
I like the fabric wheel, but would prefer it if you could tuck in the green fabric - weird but it bothers me that it is just laying on top.
eirdre
I agree I think they should both be included.