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Getting started: Organizing Your Fabric for Ombre All Day

August 29, 2019

It’s day one & we’ll be sorting our scraps & fabric & cutting where necessary. For this quilt, I really recommend cutting as you go along, but you’ll want to have enough strips & squares to make the blocks. 

So, let’s start! Grab your pile of scraps.!The first step is organizing your fabric acording to it’s hue and volume. For your first 9 blocks, you’ll want entirely low volume for the bulk of your fabric. But even within low volume fabric, there are degrees of density of print. I chose less dense prints for the first 5 blocks & increased the density and the saturation of the print for the next 4 blocks to establish the beginning of the ombre effect.

Next, I separated these fabrics into 6 groupings based on color. 

  • Very Low Volume (mostly grey & white with flecks of pink/blue)
  • Low Volume with strong pink accents
  • Pastels & Faintly Pink (this included some lightly grey pieces)
  • Coral Pink (mid level prints that include both lighter & darker hues in their prints)
  • Vivid Pink
  • Red

I also chose an accent color of orange and focused primarily on pinks that edged towards orange rather than blue. And to accentuate that, I included actual pieces that include aqua to make that orangey pink pop. Think about what colors might make your chosen focus color glow just a bit more. In the navy version of this quilt, I chose orange to really bring out that contrast. It’s not noticeable in the final quilt, but it did feel odd as I went along. I love the overall effect!

 

Cutting:

For the quilt, you’ll need 50 4″ squares.

  • 9 Very Low Volume
  • EITHER 5 Very Dark or for a smooth ombre 5 very light pastel 
  • 4 very light pastel
  • 9 medium-light
  • 9 medium 
  • 9 medium dark
  • 5 very dark

Everything else is thin strips ranging from 1.5″ to 3.5″ . Your smallest strip needs to be at least 4″ long. If you have odd sized pieces like I did, I cut them into strips with a variety of widths. Next week, we’ll start stitching our blocks!

See you then!

Amanda

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  1. Maureen says

    September 16, 2019 at 5:03 pm

    I have been trying so hard to get your free cross back apron pattern. I hope you can help me. Thanks so much!

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