Starry Technicolour Chaos: Fabric Pull

ByGnomeAngel

Starry Technicolour Chaos [CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE] is all about using up your scraps and making bold geometric lines to make order of the chaos. This pattern works best when you use a fabric scraps that don’t match the fabric you use for Fabric 1. I wrote this pattern as a way to go through all your scraps and make the most of your favourite fabrics.

Understanding the Pattern

To achieve the look on the cover of “Starry Technicolour Chaos” you will need 3 distinct fabrics/colours. You’ll find the fabric requirements, as well as a placement diagram, on the back of the pattern.

If you want to be successful with highlighting the geometric pattern in the quilt top then you need to ensure you pick bold and distinct fabrics for each placement.

Fabric 3 is a scrappy selection of different fabrics. My advice is not to use any scraps that contain the colours used in Fabric 1 or Fabric 2. You do this so that your geometric lines are not blurred due to colour creep into other areas of the pattern.

Fabric 1 works best if it’s a solid or tone-on-tone print. You want something big and bold. Fabric 2 can be a little more subdued, but you’ll still need to have contrast between Fabric 1 and Fabric 2 for the pattern to work with maximum impact.

prequilt.com colouring sheet

If your still not sure what you’d like to do I highly recommend checking out the colouring sheet on PreQuilt.com. You can access the PreQuilt colouring sheet by [CLICKING HERE].

PreQuilt have put together a great video to walk you through how to use their application to colour your quilts, simply click the image below and it will start playing.

I think the best way to get a feel for your options with this pattern is to see what others have done with it, so let’s take a stroll together through a gallery of wonderful maker quilts.

Fabric Selections in the Wild

To help you work out the look you’re going to go for I’m sharing with you some of the versions of “Starry Technicolour Chaos” that my wonderfully talented and adventurous pattern makers have made.

rainbow

Rainbow is one of my favourite colour palettes to play with. It’s a great way to use all those fabrics you love, but it requires a well rounded stash. I love these examples of how to use a rainbow of colours with this pattern.

Jane Farell (Click here to follow her on Instagram) used a colour block version of a rainbow to achieve her rainbow look. This is such a fun way to organise your scraps by colour. Jane has then teamed her scraps with solids and white for the geometric part of the pattern. (Who else is wishing they could spend time in Jane’s cabin and woods???)

Wendy Lemmon used the black and white prints from Tula Pink’s Linework for her scrappy nine patches which perfectly highlight the punch of colour from her use of solids in the geometric section of the pattern. I love how this use of colour and placement really plays up the stars in this pattern. You could achieve the same look with my personally curated Black and White Bundle [CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE].

Amanda Carriere (Click here to follow her on Instagram) made this version, which is like a love child between Jane and Wendy’s versions, and I love it so much. Amanda used a line of rainbow fabrics and it works perfectly. A bold print for her centres paired with low volume and dark prints for the geometric sections of the pattern. None of her nine patch blocks contain these colours and so there’s no competition and the pattern stays crisp.

Tonal Scraps

Jenny Kuykendall (click her to follow her on Instagram) created magic through her use of tonal scraps (that is scraps that call fall in the same colour family) to make her version of this pattern. I love how these scraps make the background to the geometric portion of the pattern shimmer. The use of a strong bold solid with white means that there’s no competition between the scraps and the geometric pattern.

Scraptastic

These versions from Heather Jarmyn (click here to follow her on Instagram), Bea Matheson (click here to follow her on Instagram) and Jessica Wester (click here to follow her on Instagram) all use random scraps to create a chaotic background that’s subdued by a strong bold solid paired with white. I love how the pattern seems to just float above the scrappy 9 patches.

Patterned Fabric 1

Karin Pudenz (click here to follow her on Instagram) took my original block layout and flipped it by using a polka dot for Fabric 1 and a solid for Fabric 2. I love this so much. It just goes to show that you really can use anything for Fabric 1 if you are careful not to blur it with a colour/print in your Fabric 3 selections.

Where to from here?

Hopefully these quilts have inspired you to have fun. Remember to use the free colouring sheet in the pattern or the quilt colouring sheet on PreQuilt.com. I can’t wait to see how you interpret this pattern.

this month’s deadlines

You can use the following dates and prompts to help plan your month and stay on track.

  • Week 1: 7 – 13 June – Fabric Selection
  • Week 2: 14 – 20 June – Cutting and Preparation
  • Week 3: 21 – 27 June – Sewing
  • Week 4: 28 – 2 July – Show & Tell Completed Projects

The next section of the 9 Patch Parade will kick off 5 July. The patterns will be “8 from 9” by GnomeAngel or “Disappearing Nine Patch Chain” by Marti Michell. When you purchase the 9 Patch Starter Kit both patterns are included and you can [CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE].

Connect with the 9 Patch Community

If you would like to share your makes or ask questions or even make new friends you can do so in two places: Home of the Gnome(Angel) on Facebook [CLICK HERE TO JOIN] and on Instagram via the #FMM9PatchParade hashtag [CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT].

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