Dark to Light – Value, The Magical Quilt Design Game-Changer

If you’ve struggled with understanding value in quilting, you’re not alone! But choosing fabric for your quilting projects can be simple when you understand how to approach it.

This week’s quilting tutorial offers essential quilting tips for learning to recognize and employ value (contrast in lightness or darkness) as the magical ingredient in quilt design.

Learn how to combine your fabrics effectively to create beautiful quilts, using simple principles that can be surprisingly easy and helpful for quilting for beginners and experienced quilters alike.

Watch the video here:

Understanding value can transform even the simplest quilt blocks.

Working with beginner-friendly half-square triangle units, we’ll explore how even more than the color harmonies of color theory, shifts in value can create lovely sparkle, rhythm, flow, or glow across your quilts.

Even small changes in value can dramatically change how a quilt looks — and once you understand how it works, you can start designing with more confidence and creativity.


✨ Quilting Friends members also receive a printable design resource to accompany this video as a personal “thank you” from me. ✨

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Beth Ann

When health challenges made hand-sewing (and hand appliqué and hand-quilting) no longer physically viable for her, Beth Ann’s first instinct was dismay and discouragement. But Grandma Baldwin gave her a loving (but stern!) “No pity parties – just figure out a different way.” So Beth Ann turned to her trusty sewing machine and began devising ways to achieve the fine quality appliqué look she craved faster and easier than she ever thought possible. And a career was born! Now Beth Ann enjoys sharing her accessible “invisible” machine appliqué and creative machine quilting techniques with other quilters and fiber artists around the world.

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