Rainbow Rose QAL Week 1

To give myself a bit of rest from all the hand work and the long-drawn art projects I'm working on, I decided to join the QAL at Modern Quilters Ireland for a beautiful rainbow version of a traditional block. It's been a while since I did some good old rotary cutting and piecing!

And people here in Ireland know a thing or two about rainbows ;))

The idea is to arrange your fabrics following the color wheel, and I have loved color wheels ever since my art school days - painting a color wheel was the first task I was given when I started art school, aged 14 )) I think my mum still has that piece of art somewhere)) Since that time I know I am drawn to "pure" rainbow colors and color transitions. And it spilled over into my quilting, in fact two of the quilts I am currently working at have something of that (this is one of them, the other I'll probably show you a sneak peak of later this week).

With this project I am determined to take the idea of a color wheel literally and create not just the transitions of colors, but also include tints and shades - a dark-to-light gradient. Luckily, my stash mostly consists of blenders and tone-on-tone patterns and I usually strive to keep as wide a range of colors and shades as possible (albeit in tiny pieces) for my appliqué projects.

The only thing that was lacking was a background, because I don't usually keep any solids and certainly not yard cuts)). So, yesterday I went to get some and returned with a piece of white and another of light grey. I'm not sure which one will work better, what do you think?

I could be arranging and rearranging them for hours ;))

So, I think I'm all set, some variation may occur later in the process. I'm now looking forward to seeing what other participants have in their stash)) If you're interested too, visit Modern Quilters Ireland and there's still time to join the QAL - the cutting and piecing starts next week!