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

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