Colour story
Where this came from.
FRUIT STAND with fabrics A and B exchanged, by Allison in Colour Lab on 2026-09-05: the magenta becomes the ground and the yellow becomes the bars.
SWAPPED. Every colour is FRUIT STAND's own; only two changed places.
Where each colour came from
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Fabric A
#E11C8AFRUIT STAND's magenta, moved from fabric B to the ground at 50.2%. -
Fabric B
#F9AF08FRUIT STAND's yellow, moved from the ground to fabric B, the bars. -
Fabric C
#BBB256FRUIT STAND's chartreuse, unchanged on fabric C. -
Fabric D
#68367FFRUIT STAND's purple, unchanged — on both D and F, as it was in Weave. -
Fabric E
#F06707FRUIT STAND's orange, unchanged on fabric E. -
Fabric F
#68367FFRUIT STAND's purple, unchanged — on both D and F, as it was in Weave.
What it does to the seams
Checked against all 14 fabric pairs weighted by how much seam length each actually shares in this quilt. 13.0% of the seam length falls below 1.25 contrast: the yellow bars against the chartreuse at 1.16, on 11.8% of seams, and the purple against itself where D meets F. Every colour sits within 19 points of lightness, so it reads as a saturated, tonal quilt — colour first, piecing second. FRUIT STAND itself loses 15.8%.
- Seams that will not read
- 13.0%
- Soft seams
- 31.12%
- Lightness range
- 19
- Reads as
- Texture
- Every colour sits within 19 points of lightness. The piecing will read as texture rather than as shapes.
- Nothing in this palette is lighter than 54. A design of many small pieces needs somewhere for the eye to rest.
- B-C carries 11.82% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.16 — those seams will not read.
- D-F carries 1.18% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1 — those seams will not read.
Contrast is measured on screen colours, not on fabric. It tells you where the piecing will disappear, not which bolt to buy.
