Finished Color Wheel Quilt Top, originally uploaded by Pikku-Kettu.
It’s hard not to be impressed by quilts like this that touch on every color in the spectrum but it’s daunting to think about recreating one. There are 52 different fabrics called for in this pattern (53 if you include the white) and I have collected six so far.
I obviously have a ways to go… but I’m so excited to get started that I went ahead and cut out these spokes. It also “frees up” the remaining fabric from these prints for another project. I don’t know about you but if I want to use a fabric for a specific project I have to seperate it immediately even if I know I won’t actually make the project for weeks or months. Otherwise I know that I will accidentally grab it, use it in something else, and be severly disappointed when I realize what I’ve done. With a fabric that is currently in stores that’s not such a big deal but if the fabric is hard to find or out of print it could be devastating.
I have no idea how long it will take me to find 46 more fabrics so for now I’m going to be inspired by these examples of color spectrum quilts.
Do you have a favorite color wheel or color spectrum project? Please post the link so we can all be inspired!
i have this pattern too!! i haven’t started it get but i love staring at it in the book!!
What a cool project!
I sooo want to make the colorwheel quilt too. I’ve also collected I think about 18 strips but still looking for fabrics to finish it off. Love all the colorwheel inspiration.
I can’t find it online but I saw a picture of a gorgeous colour spectrum quilt in a quilting magazine. It was 7 strips of charms going from bright to pastel shades of each colour of the rainbow on a black background.
the colorwheel quilt is gorgeous, and i can see why you’d want to make one. i may try one, once i finish my current UFOs (although that will take awhile!), but i’d have to make a different type, since i don’t sew curves! anyway, i have a huge huge huge fabric stash, and if you’d like, you can email me, and i’d be glad to send you appropriate size pieces of colors you need.
amy