*sigh* so the other day you got the bits and pieces (or whatever it’s called) quilt stuck in my head, and now this. Please slow down, I’m struggling to keep up 😉
Seriously though, this is a great way to use up leftovers from charm packs.
Thank you!!!!! x
Oh, THANK YOU. I’ve been overwhelmed by my fabric stash and wanting to play with all my fabrics at once. This will allow me to do that AND to fill that empty spot above the fireplace. Happy, happy day!
Great tutorial. I know that I always tend toward mid values and I needed a push to buy some darker and lighter values. I will definitely be trying this out. Thanks.
o yes I will let you know. Thank you. I’m afraid I will not be able to try it soon though! But I’m very tempted to drop my current projects to start on this one! : )
Thanks for this one. And thanks for not picking prints from the same fabric line for the whole thing. (Those are supposed to match, right?) But it did help me see how value works when the fabrics have nothing else in common but…well, value.
One thing I’m not certain about- why have three piles/values? The photo looks like you’re alternating between lights and darks. Where do the mediums come in?
I love it! So much so that this morning, as soon as I’d seen it I started making one. I have loads of fabric scraps to use although a lot of them are not as highly patterned as yours which I think makes yours looks extra stunning.
HI! Just found you via the sew mama sew link. This is a great tutorial and has given me an insight into new ways and angles to come at quilt design, thanks.xxx
I’ve been after doing this style quilt for some time now. I really like your version as it uses larger pieces. I have alot of larger scale designs so think your quilt layout would be perfect when I finish my quilts currently in production of course!. Great tutorial thanks.
Thank you Katie. I found this very helpful. You are right that most of my stash is medium, but I found that pairing off the mediums each with a dark or a light totally made the design click. (I am making a small coin quilt. I’ll put it up on flickr when it’s done.) You are wonderful!
-Cherie
[…] Forget matching. Just randomly pull lights, mediums, and darks out of your stash to make a Values quilt. Katie from Willy Nilly blog offers a tutorial. Get the how-to here. […]
AHA! OK, I have recognized this in those little postage stamp quilts where the little square are divided diagonally and I LOVE that. Thanks for this great tutorial. I have you bookmk’d and I will ck. out the Flickr group. (: izazbz at yahoo dot com
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful quilt tutorial and I will be making it very soon.
Love love your blog and thanks for your kind words about my birds.
Have a beautiful weekend from sunny and warm UK!
[…] done three blocks, I now reckon I have plenty of fabric club squares to play with, so might make a Value quilt instead. Another project on the ever-lengthening […]
[…] pm · Filed under patchwork, quilting, sewing I’ve taken a baby step towards making a Value Quilt by trying to sort my Kimono House samples into three […]
[…] which uses the same pattern but is based on color and/or pattern value. Metrosupial Designs posted a tutorial on picking values, and there are some good notes there on piecing this particular quilt design as well. Fabric: Moda […]
Wow you make it look so easy! Heading off to a craft fair this week, so I AM going to splash out and get some bits I totally need and make one, for who, don’t know yet lol
oooh…this is just beautiful. thanks for the flickr invite for the quilt along. very very tempted. I’ve never made a real quilt before. but I’m all over the whole value thing, being a former art major and all. hmmmm.
[…] I decided with everything going on that I wasn’t going to reinvent the wheel. All text and photos have already been done, so if you care to skip ahead because you have time, the whole process is HERE. […]
I know I am late on this but this is fantastic. I know about value, at least on a basic level but after looking at your post and studying your pictures I get it!!! That is exciting- I swear the room lit up as the lightbulb sparked.
This is a great tutorial and is easy to follow. I have read other instructions for this type of quilt but have never been able to make sense of them until now. I think you have been clear and concise and generous to share your ideas. Thank you.
Another way to see value is to look through something red. Cellophane, red plastic anything you can see through. It will remove color and you will only see light, medium or dark.
Love the fabrics in your quilt!
[…] my sewing table at the moment is a quilt for Baby Bert. Inspired by some of these quilts, #1, #2, #3. Obviously it is in the very early stages and other projects keep vying for my attention, but I am […]
Thanks….just what I need to use to help me learn about value. I recently made a baby quilt that just wasn’t quite “right” and agreed with my friend at my LQS that too many fabrics were the same value. Great practice lesson.
[…] you’re feeling the value quilt love, you should check out the Sew Katie Did tutorial. It looks like she inspired a whole run of value quilts! Now, I just need an excuse to make […]
Thank you so much, this was such an easy quilt to make with your intrsuctions. My grandmother passed away over a year ago now and she had made all of her own dresses, so I got all of her hand made dresses and made a value quilt from them for my father (her son) for Christmas this year. He loved it and I enjoyed making it. I will send you a picture of the quilt if I can have an e-mail address to send it to. I didn’t see a place to upload a photo here. Thanks again, Bonnie-Jean Mitchell
Thank you for this great tutorial. I have been looking for a pattern for my first quilt and this will be it! Now I just have to decide if I want to make my squares smaller (I have some scraps I thought I might use) or buy some more fabric… darn, i just hate going to the fabric store!
[…] oranges, and now I feel like I've filled out my assortment. These will probably be going into the Value Quilt that I've started (completely Katie's fault), even though I have one quilt started and another one I […]
[…] you're thinking of making a quilt like this, you can follow Katie's tutorial here. Its one of those projects that big, but not overwhelming. She sent me a stack of pre-cut blocks […]
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*sigh* so the other day you got the bits and pieces (or whatever it’s called) quilt stuck in my head, and now this. Please slow down, I’m struggling to keep up 😉
Seriously though, this is a great way to use up leftovers from charm packs.
Thank you!!!!! x
I’ve had this in my head as a post forever. Still needs some refining.
This is so fantastic! Thanks for the tutorial.
Oh, THANK YOU. I’ve been overwhelmed by my fabric stash and wanting to play with all my fabrics at once. This will allow me to do that AND to fill that empty spot above the fireplace. Happy, happy day!
This is great! I’m not sure if understand everything completely but I would love to give it a try.
Let me know if you have questions. It might help with the editing.
Great tutorial. I know that I always tend toward mid values and I needed a push to buy some darker and lighter values. I will definitely be trying this out. Thanks.
Oh thanks for posting the tutorial for this….I really need to make one.
Great tutorial. Very easy to understand. I’ve saved it in my bookmarks so i can have a go after the 4 I’m working on now.
o yes I will let you know. Thank you. I’m afraid I will not be able to try it soon though! But I’m very tempted to drop my current projects to start on this one! : )
Thanks for this one. And thanks for not picking prints from the same fabric line for the whole thing. (Those are supposed to match, right?) But it did help me see how value works when the fabrics have nothing else in common but…well, value.
One thing I’m not certain about- why have three piles/values? The photo looks like you’re alternating between lights and darks. Where do the mediums come in?
The mediums will become the light or the dark of the square when combined with another. Make sense?
This is a great tutorial! Thanks for sharing…I need to make one of these pronto!
I love it! So much so that this morning, as soon as I’d seen it I started making one. I have loads of fabric scraps to use although a lot of them are not as highly patterned as yours which I think makes yours looks extra stunning.
HI! Just found you via the sew mama sew link. This is a great tutorial and has given me an insight into new ways and angles to come at quilt design, thanks.xxx
I’ve been after doing this style quilt for some time now. I really like your version as it uses larger pieces. I have alot of larger scale designs so think your quilt layout would be perfect when I finish my quilts currently in production of course!. Great tutorial thanks.
This is so great! I will definitely be adding it to my things to do!
i am so grateful for this! thank you….
Thank you Katie. I found this very helpful. You are right that most of my stash is medium, but I found that pairing off the mediums each with a dark or a light totally made the design click. (I am making a small coin quilt. I’ll put it up on flickr when it’s done.) You are wonderful!
-Cherie
i am so looking forward to trying this – thank you for the inspiration!
*bookmarks*
[…] Forget matching. Just randomly pull lights, mediums, and darks out of your stash to make a Values quilt. Katie from Willy Nilly blog offers a tutorial. Get the how-to here. […]
love this quilt! thanks for the details!
This looks like a great, easy quilt design. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the great tutorial!
AHA! OK, I have recognized this in those little postage stamp quilts where the little square are divided diagonally and I LOVE that. Thanks for this great tutorial. I have you bookmk’d and I will ck. out the Flickr group. (: izazbz at yahoo dot com
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful quilt tutorial and I will be making it very soon.
Love love your blog and thanks for your kind words about my birds.
Have a beautiful weekend from sunny and warm UK!
[…] done three blocks, I now reckon I have plenty of fabric club squares to play with, so might make a Value quilt instead. Another project on the ever-lengthening […]
Whey intr. good patchwork!!! Leja
Whery intr. good patchwork!!! Leja
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[…] pm · Filed under patchwork, quilting, sewing I’ve taken a baby step towards making a Value Quilt by trying to sort my Kimono House samples into three […]
great tutorial! You explained it beautifully. Now I “get it”, thanks!
[…] which uses the same pattern but is based on color and/or pattern value. Metrosupial Designs posted a tutorial on picking values, and there are some good notes there on piecing this particular quilt design as well. Fabric: Moda […]
Wow you make it look so easy! Heading off to a craft fair this week, so I AM going to splash out and get some bits I totally need and make one, for who, don’t know yet lol
oooh…this is just beautiful. thanks for the flickr invite for the quilt along. very very tempted. I’ve never made a real quilt before. but I’m all over the whole value thing, being a former art major and all. hmmmm.
hi Katie! how many squares it needs for a quilt like yours?
[…] I decided with everything going on that I wasn’t going to reinvent the wheel. All text and photos have already been done, so if you care to skip ahead because you have time, the whole process is HERE. […]
wow this is beautiful. i’m adding this to my to-do list..
thanks!
I know I am late on this but this is fantastic. I know about value, at least on a basic level but after looking at your post and studying your pictures I get it!!! That is exciting- I swear the room lit up as the lightbulb sparked.
This is a great tutorial and is easy to follow. I have read other instructions for this type of quilt but have never been able to make sense of them until now. I think you have been clear and concise and generous to share your ideas. Thank you.
Another way to see value is to look through something red. Cellophane, red plastic anything you can see through. It will remove color and you will only see light, medium or dark.
Love the fabrics in your quilt!
Thanks! I like taking a black and white picture with my digital too.
This is a very helpful lesson, I really feel like trying to sew one of those Value Quilts. Thank you for sharing your experience.
[…] my sewing table at the moment is a quilt for Baby Bert. Inspired by some of these quilts, #1, #2, #3. Obviously it is in the very early stages and other projects keep vying for my attention, but I am […]
Thanks for a great tutorial. I have put a link to you on my freebies blog if thats okay….cheers, khris
Thanks….just what I need to use to help me learn about value. I recently made a baby quilt that just wasn’t quite “right” and agreed with my friend at my LQS that too many fabrics were the same value. Great practice lesson.
[…] you’re feeling the value quilt love, you should check out the Sew Katie Did tutorial. It looks like she inspired a whole run of value quilts! Now, I just need an excuse to make […]
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Thank you so much, this was such an easy quilt to make with your intrsuctions. My grandmother passed away over a year ago now and she had made all of her own dresses, so I got all of her hand made dresses and made a value quilt from them for my father (her son) for Christmas this year. He loved it and I enjoyed making it. I will send you a picture of the quilt if I can have an e-mail address to send it to. I didn’t see a place to upload a photo here. Thanks again, Bonnie-Jean Mitchell
Thank you for this great tutorial. I have been looking for a pattern for my first quilt and this will be it! Now I just have to decide if I want to make my squares smaller (I have some scraps I thought I might use) or buy some more fabric… darn, i just hate going to the fabric store!
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[…] you're thinking of making a quilt like this, you can follow Katie's tutorial here. Its one of those projects that big, but not overwhelming. She sent me a stack of pre-cut blocks […]
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What a way to use up all our scrap pieces. Makes a beautiful quilt for those very very cold days we have. Thank you so much…..