Monday, June 23, 2014

Sunshine on My Design Wall

There's probably some wordplay on the John Denver song, Sunshine on my Shoulders, thats eluding me ... but the Sunshine on my Design Wall today is making me pretty happy, too.

Design Wall - June 23

I blogged about the big block–the first block of my Summer of Sunflowers project– yesterday.  It is joined by the first 10 Broken Dishes blocks made from scrappy yellow Half-Square Triangles.   Yes, I did iron all 340 of the HSTs I made Friday night and have started putting them together.  

I started by making just one, then photographed it, uploaded it and converted it to black and white to see how sound my value judgement was with all these yellow fabrics.  As soon as I saw it on the screen, I immediately saw my goof (lower right corner), so before I went any further, I had to fix that. 

First Block  First Block in Black & White  Corrected Block
(original block, converted to gray scale, and the same block, rotated, with the corner fixed) 

It's interesting how, in color, I see good contrast in some of those light + bright combinations; when converted to gray scale, in some squares, there is little/no contrast.

I'm adding my link to Design Wall Monday.

9 comments:

Jo said...

Oh wow love the sun flower block.
Great work

Julierose said...

Lovely! gee, I like that grey one--like a bit of cloud floating by (I know you photo-ed it in grey scale but...)just sayin' hugs, Julierose

Farm Quilter said...

Definitely a "Sunshine on My Shoulder" quilt!!! Love it!!

Gina said...

Great blocks. It's amazing how different that block looks in the grey scale xx

floribunda said...

I am always amazed at how well monochromatic scraps go together no matter how diverse they seem when you look at them individually! I'm loving this one...

scraphappy said...

Contrast can be tricky with yellow blocks. Great tip on converting photo to black and white though. It is easy to see the contrast that way. Such a bright and sunny wall!

Mystic Quilter said...

Love that John Denver song and love your both your star blocks and the sunshine block.

Terri said...

So sunny and cheery. Love the yellow altogether and set solid.
Hugs

Needled Mom said...

Your yellows are wonderful. The grayscale is so interesting.

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