Feel free to share these items with family and friends. Follow the directions on how to download this information to your disk. If you wish to use the pattern for other personal use, please see our Usage Notes page. Black is the lowest value and white is the highest value. Between black and white are all the other gradations of value.
All colors fit somewhere on the value scale.
As an example, blue can have a range of values from dark to light. When you choose the fabrics for your quilts remember to choose a range of values. If you want this effect, go ahead but understand what you are doing. Small gradations in color do work well for water color quilts and for areas within your quilt where you want an area to hold together but have some variation within it. There are some very good books on color in quilting and color in art.