Welcome to the continuation of my COLOURED CABINS summer posts. We've looked at the 3 PRIMARY COLOURS and the SECONDARY COLOURS and now we're going to take a brief look at TERTIARY COLOURS on the COLOUR WHEEL Our 3 PRIMARY COLOURS are RED, YELLOW and BLUE Our SECONDARY COLOURS are made from a mix of 2 PRIMARY COLOURS. The ORANGE, GREEN and PURPLE are our SECONDARY COLOURS. RED combined with YELLOW creates ORANGE. YELLOW combined with BLUE creates GREEN and BLUE combined w

If you are playing along with my Coloured Cabins blocks, you'll have a few blocks pieced. Now it's time to start working on a layout. A 16 block quilt using 12" blocks will be a 4 block by 4 block arrangement (48" x 48"). A 20 block quilt will be 4 blocks by 5 blocks (48" x 60"). Let's focus first on the 16 block quilt. Have you noticed that these log cabins look like a Half Square Triangle? Yeppers! Any block that you can make using HST can be made into a quilt using Lo

This blog post is part of a summer 2021 series on colour theory and log cabin blocks. In previous posts I've shown you how to cut and sew a basic 12" finished scrappy Log Cabin Block. Now we can start planning a quilt using specific fabrics. My first image is of a Blue/Red and Yellow quilt. These are the primary colours of the colour wheel. My step by step images are of a light and darker value of the same colours. I've pulled some fabrics from my stash and I want to make

We know that there are 3 Primary colours - RED, YELLOW and BLUE, but what happens when we start to mix these colours together? Let's back up a little bit and look at the following colour wheel image. Print this Colour Wheel worksheet page as many times as you want and play along with me. So, we know there are 3 primary colours: Red, Yellow and Blue. Go through your stash and glue small pieces of fabrics in these colours in 3 spaces. Start with a single piece of each colour f

One of the best things I have ever done to help my quilting is to start dyeing my own fabric. It was a real eye-opener for me. I've since dyed hundreds of meters of fabric and love the results each time! The Primary Three are the 3 basic colours that are the start of the colour wheel. All other hues or colours are mixed from these three. Technically, the primary colours are colours or hues do not come from mixes, but they CAN be mixed to make other colours!!!! It's the star

This blog post is part of a series of Log Cabin and Colour theory posts. Today I'm going to show you how to make a simple 12" log cabin block. You will need to select 2 contrasting value fabrics. If you are following the other half of this series on Colour Theory, refer to that post for information on sorting your light and dark fabrics. The easy way to sort lights and darks is to squint as you look at them. The colour sort of disappears and the value will show. If in doubt,

What do you value in your quilting? I'm not talking about how much you've spent on your fabrics and sewing supplies. I talking about the fabrics you use in your quilts. What Does Value Mean in Color Theory? Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. It defines a color in terms of how close it is to white or black. The lighter the color, the closer it is to white. The darker the color, the closer it is to black. Quilts by Jen has some great posts about colour. Ch

I'm starting a blog series called Coloured Cabins. There will be 2 parts to this series. Part 1 will look at some basic colour theory and Part 2 will look at sewing quilt blocks. I've decided to focus this summer on Log Cabin blocks as a way to use up some of my many tubs of scrap fabrics. There are a wide variety of methods of piecing these blocks. I'm going to focus on 1 method of cutting and sewing the blocks. This is an easy method and I am finding that I don't have t

Quick, What's your favourite colour? Don't think about it. Just shout it out! Have you ever thought about how that particular colour became your favourite? Currently my favourite colour is RED. Bright Red, not a raspberry or pinky red, not a dark burgundy red, but a bright clear Canada Maple Leaf flag red, a bright tomato red!!! That's my colour…..but it wasn't always red. I clearly remember in Junior High my bedroom was royal blue and orange. I mean the walls were painted