Hive 4 June Block Tutorial

Improv mini-circles

I am looking for smallish improv 'quarter' circles.  I am considering a circle to be one block and I'd like to put them together into circles from these quarter blocks.  

The blocks should finish at 3.5 inches.  

https://www.shecanquilt.ca/2017/01/improv-circles-2016-fal-tutorial.html

I’m looking for each block to have a grey background and analogous colors from the color wheel.  Analogous colors is a group of three or more colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.  This scheme can create a harmonious effect as these colors naturally work well together:

For example:

Grey, Orange and yellow

Grey, Green and blue

Grey, Pink and purple

Here is what I chose:

You can use solids or prints, and prints can have other colors as long as they read mostly the primary colors.

I like pastels, but they can be bolder too.  I’m not fond of batiks or juvenile prints. The Grey needs to tie everything together. The four blocks can be all the same color families or all different.

Some tips working with these small circles:

1. Make everything bigger than it needs to be and cut it down.  The strips need to be bigger than 1/2 inch because you will lose 1/2 in in the seam allowances.  

2. Clip the rounded pieces a little bit before you sew, this will make sewing the turns easier:

These end up being so cute!!!

-Jennifer