Start with choosing your border. Pick a colourful print - the border will be 3” finished so that you can decide whether a particular print is too large or small. You will need .40m.
From this print, pick 4 colours, and for each colour you will need 2 shades. For instance, if you have a floral with green, pink, purple and blue, you will want two shades of green, 2 of pink, 2 of purple and 2 of blue. They do not have to have a great deal of contrast between them, but it is fine if they do. Because there is no strip piecing, using smaller scraps are fine. Tone on tones, or solids will give the best effect, but don’t worry if there is a tiny bit of another colour - for instance, small white dots on your blue. Just avoid small, busy prints. You will need .10m of each (8 fabrics).
Finally, you will need a background colour. Make sure there is sufficient contrast between your coloured fabrics and the background. You can go lighter or darker than your colours. Avoid obvious prints, but use solids, tone on tones, or a soft wash of colours like in a batik. You will need .70m.
If you have an easy angle ruler, we will be using that. If not, you’ll have to make your half square triangles from squares - layering two pieces rst, and sewing on both sides of the diagonal, and then cutting on the diagonal.
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