What is a Focus Fabric?
A Focus Fabric is usually a fabric with several colors that is used to help select fabrics to use in a quilt. Starting with the multi-print Focus Fabric and selecting various prints that go with that fabric allows the quilter to have a color pallet for building the group of fabrics needed for the quilt.
Benefits of a Focus Fabric
New quilters find it very helpful to work with a Focus Fabric as they learn to pick a variety of fabrics for their quilt project.
Many printed fabrics have color dots on the selvedge that show the colors used to print the fabric which can be used confidently to select additional fabrics.
Choose light, medium and dark fabrics that go with the Focus Fabric and a variety of print types, to provide "visual texture" in the quilt.
The Focus Fabric can be used as a color guide and doesn't need to be in the quilt!
Supplies and Tools for Focus Fabric
The color dots are helpful for quilters selecting fabrics to add to their palette. A busy Focus Fabric may have as many as 12-15 color dots, giving the quilter a lot of options for selecting additional fabrics to go with the Focus Fabric.
What I Wish I Knew When I Started using a Focus Fabric
It is easy to use a Focus Fabric to create a palette for a quilt project. Start with a Focus Fabric and keep adding more prints and solids to the palette until you have the amount of fabric needed for the quilt project.
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