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As promised last week, here is a small group of quilts that use the green and blue analogous color plan to create their designs. Each is quite different in design and color use. I have featured a quilt by Margarete Steinhauer from Estes Park, Colorado and one by Jane Hall from Raleigh, North Carolina. I love both of their quilts and I hope you will too. There are two additional images in this post, both showing analogous colorings in this selected blue-green range. If you are a lover of blues and greens, perhaps you have made your own quilts with this color combination. It’s a beautiful color span to work with and it’s probably the most popular color combination. Enjoy!

Tsunami by Margarete Steinhauer, Estes Park, Colorado

In Tsunami, the subtle color changes appear to move from chartreuse to turquoise—–and  perhaps a smattering of cerulean blue too. Besides the beautiful color blends, this is a masterpiece in design. Margarete’s use of line, direction, color, and texture make this a stunning design. Tsunami was created in 2006. It is 43″ x 41″.  By the way, this quilt is featured on its own page in my new book Adventures in Design. I guess you can tell that I absolutely love this quilt!  I am simply spellbound by it. (Photo by Joe Ofia, Arlington, Massachusetts)

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Colors have their own traits and personality quirks. It’s good for us to know these color idiosyncrasies, so we can use them to our advantage. Since blue is the most loved color, I’d like to delve into the blue world and share some hints for using blues in future projects.

All of the blues we see in the world come from the blue families of aqua blue, turquoise, cerulean blue, and blue. (Each of these colors has many variations, but that’s a topic for another day.) Blue is very rare in nature except for sky and water. Blue skies and water can range from brilliant to toned; from light to dark; from warm to cold. So the variation of blue colors is vast.

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