How it started….

I spent much of this past weekend being asked questions about how I made the “Catherine Wheel of Color” quilt…..

I decided to track the progress and was surprised to see that I started working on it in 2019!!

It started with this article in a magazine….

I had just bought a new color wheel and was excited to play with it using scraps

Before long I had several “snakes” of color….

Then it kept growing until I had this…..

….but my studio looked like this….

I now needed to find a background for the color wheel, and thought that a grey to black gradation would be perfect.

My first thought was to dye one…..

…but I couldn’t get the gradation that I wanted, so I ended up purchasing fabrics instead.

THEN, I had to figure out what to put inside the color square, and after a lot of searching and thinking, I decided on appliqued circles, using Karen Kay Buckley’s templates….

….and in February of 2020, it looked like this…..

We will stop there for now and continue the saga tomorrow!!

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