And then there was color

Finding different color combinations can be very easy.

On the back of your color wheel there are already defined sets that you can follow.

• Mono-chromatic: Using any shade, tint or tone of one color. This is one we all do all the time and in fact is one of the things I do with my fabric gradations – Raspberry, Pine Green, Mulberry Blue and Ochre are all monochromatic gradations.

• Analogous:  Using any shades, tints or tones of colors that lie adjacent to each other on the wheel.

I already showed you my pattern quilt Duluth Trees that was made using analogous colors, but here is another quilt

Hidden World that is a pieced quilt with an analogous color theme of blue, green and blue/greens.

• Split Complements – Choosing one color and using the color on each side of its complement on the color wheel. Red and Green are complimentary colors, if I choose green then the the colors on either side of red are red/violet and red-orange. See the triangle there in the middle of the wheel it is pointing to green and then on the other side of that triangle are the colors red-violet and red-orange.

The center part of the wheel rotates around so you can choose different colors to work with.

• Triad – using three colors equally spaced from each other.
• Tetrad – a contrast of four or more colors on the wheel. There are two sets of tetrads one rectangle and square.

I just love playing with color and having lots of color choices.

Go get that color wheel and start fooling around. You can have color too!