Quilt · Overall
Color by Number
Fourteen colours in order, each column one colour on, so diagonal V shapes run across the quilt.
- Setting
- Overall
- Size
- 30" × 35"
- Known from
- Modern pattern
- Origin
- Caroline Fairbanks, SewCanShe
- Difficulty
- Easy · Squares and rectangles only
History
Color by Number is Caroline Fairbanks' pattern from her blog SewCanShe, where it is free with a page to colour in and number slips for the fabrics. She writes that she borrows techniques from bargello: the fourteen fabrics are numbered 1–14 and sewn into long strip sets, which are looped and cut into columns, and in each column one seam is unpicked as a chart says, so the colours move.
How it is used
In QuiltCrafter the pattern is a formula, so it is drawn with each square in its number, and the palette has the fourteen colours. Choose a colour scale, such as the rainbow, so the V shapes run smoothly. See also Bargello, which the technique builds on.
Related quilts
Sources
The text is our own, written from the sources below. Photos of the old quilts are in the museums' collections.
- Article Caroline Fairbanks, SewCanShe: Sew a Color by Number Quilt