Colour story
Where this came from.
MEADOW with fabrics A and B exchanged, by Allison in Colour Lab on 2026-09-05: the mauve becomes the ground and the peach becomes the bars.
SWAPPED. Every colour is MEADOW's own; only two changed places.
Where each colour came from
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Fabric A
#A16A84MEADOW's mauve, moved from fabric B to the ground at 50.2%. -
Fabric B
#FEC67CMEADOW's peach, moved from the ground to fabric B, the bars. -
Fabric C
#999A57MEADOW's olive, unchanged on fabric C. -
Fabric D
#5E5C2DMEADOW's dark olive, unchanged — on both D and F, as it was in Weave. -
Fabric E
#FC9C51MEADOW's apricot, unchanged on fabric E. -
Fabric F
#5E5C2DMEADOW's dark olive, 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. 1.2% of the seam length falls below 1.25 contrast, all of it the dark olive against itself where D meets F. 19.8% is soft, against 31.1% for MEADOW as it stands: the mauve ground reads against the peach bars where the peach ground did not read against the mauve.
- Seams that will not read
- 1.2%
- Soft seams
- 19.8%
- Lightness range
- 47
- Reads as
- Shapes
- Nothing in this palette is lighter than 74. A design of many small pieces needs somewhere for the eye to rest.
- 2 of the 6 fabrics are dark. Two darks compete; one dark punctuates.
- 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.
