The Third 3 Ply Log Cabin Square: Contrasting Light and Dark

Bringing Bright and Dark Colors Together

I promise, this will be the last square for a while. This is probably the last one I can use to illustrate anything interesting about how I am thinking about color for this blanket.

This square started with two ideas in mind. I wanted to use some of th bright blue/green yarn (in the bottom log) and I wanted to find a way to use the very light green/yellow yarn from the last block (in the top right log) such that it didn't stand out quite so strongly.

The one color that extends through all the blocks in this square is green. Not all the greens are the same, but each yarn does have some kind of green element. There's also a balance of bright and dark yarns. The top left and right logs are colorways with lighter tones and brighter tones, the remaining logs are darker. I think by putting the two brighter logs on one side of the square and the darker logs on the other, it creates an interesting balance and makes the brighter logs not seem so contrasty and unexpected.

I think most of the next squares I make are going to be variations on these themes. But it might be a little while before I get too much farther because there's a good bit of quilting starting up again...