NEW! Purl Color Wheel Quilt Custom Fabric Bundle!
Joelle's Color Wheel Quilt is one of our favorite projects from her new book, Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts. It is a spectacular heirloom, a treat for the eyes, and a fun color experiment. We couldn't wait to get our hands on this incredible pattern and start picking out fabrics!
Luckily, the book includes templates for making the segments of the wheel as well as the background shapes and thorough details to help us along with its construction. Joelle explains how she cut and assembled the fabric, including tips on chain-piecing the segments together. That's all very helpful, but one question remains:
How do you choose all those colors?
The gifted colorists at Purl Patchwork have created a brand new Color Wheel Fabric Bundle to help solve this dilemma!
The Color Wheel Fabric Bundle includes 52 bright and brilliant cotton prints from some of our favorite designers to make up the color wheel. Each print is cut into fat eighths, or 9 x 22 inch rectangles which is enough fabric to assemble your own color wheel.
To complete the quilt, you'll also need 7.25 yards of white cotton fabric for the background, quilt back, and binding; template plastic, pattern paper, thread, and a fabric marker, which are not included.
October 6, 2007 | purl bee | Print | Share | in Color, Fabric, Patchwork, Patterns, Books + Magazines, Quilting | 28 Comments
Reader Comments (28)
Yes! I thought your suggestion was such a good idea, thats why we made them. Thank you!! --Joelle
There might be enough left over, depending on how carefully you cut your fabric. If you plan ahead in your cutting I would imagine you could get the pencil roll out of it and maybe Kelly's Pincushions too. --Joelle
We will keep this item available, though as the fabrics go out of print so quickly it may be made up of different prints by the time christmas comes around. --Joelle
More are on their way! We'll try to have them by the end of this week or early next week. --Joelle
looks just like the color wheel from last minute knitted gifts...which i recreated for my day job.
*swoon*
Oh. My.
With a few exceptions, these are not the actual fabrics used in the book. Unfortunately, the fabrics go out of print so fast that many of them are no longer available. We selected the prints for the bundles to produce a quilt with a similar feeling. --Joelle
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/1756681461_818a9a41de.jpg?v=0
Thankyou for such beautiful things Joelle.
Have a wonderful holiday.
Thanks,
Beth Britt
We've just made a whole bunch of new color wheel bundles. You can find them here:
http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/accessories_notions_list/108
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts about the book! --Joelle
We're a little short staffed at the moment and these bundles take a long time to make. We'll be getting some done as time permits, hopefully soon! If you'd like to be notified when we do have some done send an email to our customer service address and they'll let you know as soon as we have them available. customerservice@purlsoho.com
Will it be soon available?
Thank you