01 Virginia Walton showed how light yellow can take over a quilt

02 Dark yellow can take over too

03 Solution is to use MORE yellow

04 Another solution is to diffuse yellow with white

05 To create 'Amish sparkle' use the next color a half-step lighter

06 Only use a few 'sparkle' pieces

07 Or create Amish 'glow' by placing lightest next to darkest

08 You eye creates stars where the light fabrics join

09 Key to scrap quilt is same depth of color in each fan

10 Figure must have different value than background, which is why pink block works better.

11 Butterfly doesn't drag your eye to the edge because all its fabrics are same value

12 In a scrap quilt, fabrics just read 'dark' or 'light'. There are 5 different fabrics here.

13 Both dark fabrics merge together in center, but are seperated in border

14 Placement of the scrappy yellows makes them all read alike to your eye

15 Color of each piece used in the tree doesn't matter; just grab the next piece. The placement makes them merge.

16 Leave enough space around appliqués

17 Or you can separate animals or appliqués...

18 ...by using dark sashing to give blocks some space

19 It looks like a hole in the design where a log cabin 'log' is same co,lor as background

20 Virginia purposely used the 'hole' created by the 9-patch same color as background

21 Tumblings Stars -- same shape makes star or baby block

22 Same shape pieces create a landscape

23 Virginia turns classic pieced blocks into curves

24 Same design made with Virginia's 2 3 and 4-inch rulers

25 Drunkard's path quarter-circles on light background

26 Same quarter-circles on dark background

27 Same quarter-circles in border, where colors create illusion that they match colors in painted panel

28 Mixing sizes of circles