Simply Quilts

Uncle Sam Quilt, Color Value

Episode QLT-805

Celebrate the patriotic spirit by making a stained glass portrait of Uncle Sam Wilson. Guest Linda Everhart demonstrates her new technique for creating a one-piece black "leading"—Fusiqué! Then host Alex Anderson gives a tutorial on how to differentiate color value, explaining that color value has more to do with sorting your colors by "medium," "light," and "dark" as opposed to more traditional sorting by color—blues, yellows, greens, etc. Getting a good contrast is as simple as picking from the light and dark piles consistently.