Colourful Friday | Quilts By Jen

What Is Value In Relation To Colour?

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. As promised today’s post is about value. Value is the relative lightness or darkness of a fabric. Last week I talked about tints, shades and tones and how these help to create light and dark fabrics. Value is very...

Tints, Shades & Tones

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. Last week I talked about warm and cool colours, this week I am going to delve a bit deeper into colour and talk about adding white, black and grey to pure colours. By adding either white, black and grey to a pure colour...

Warm and Cool Colours

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. Warm or cool – which one are you drawn to? I have to say that the cool colours always catch my eye before the warm colours do. Looking in my closet the colours I choose to wear are definitely more to the cool...

Achromatic – A Colour Scheme or Not?

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. Over the past few weeks I have discussed the different colour schemes that are found on the colour wheel or star. There have been several and all the different schemes will create stunning quilts. This week I am going...

The Rectangle Tretadic Colour Scheme

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. Last week I introduced you to the Tretadic Colour Scheme in the shape of a square. This week we are going to look at the tetradic scheme in the shape of a rectangle. The square and rectangle theme are the same in that...

Tetradic Colour Schemes – The Square

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. This week the colour scheme gets just a tad bit tricky. The focus of this week’s colour tutorial is tetradic colour schemes. What is a tetrad? Tetrad means four. The tetradic colour scheme is made up of four...