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Practice Block
Saturation

The practice block uses a pure hue plus its tint, tone and shade. You can use prints or solids but if you use prints, make sure the strongly dominant colors are the tine, tone, shade and pure hue. This exercise will help you identify these important characteristics of color and see how they interact, i.e. which is dominant, which moves forward in the design and which moves to the rear. Make a couple of practice blocks using at least one warm color and one cool color.

Cutting directions.

Sewing Directions.

Make four G, C, E, F sub-blocks.
1. Draw a diagonal line on wrong side of each C. Sew one C to each E on drawn line. Trim seam and iron open.
2. Sew F to each C/E piece. Trim and iron open.
3. Sew one G to each C/E/F section.
Make 4 B/D/H sub-sections.
4. Draw diagonal on wrong side of each H square.
5. Sew D to H 1/4" on each side of drawn line. Cut on drawn line and iron open to form two half-triangle squares from D and H squares.
6. Sew one B to each D/H.
7. Sew two G/C/E/F sub-sections to one B/D/H subsection. Repeat to make two.
8. Sew two B/D/H sub-sections to A. You will have one.
9. Sew the two sub-sections from step 7 on top and bottom of sub-section from 8.