NEW! Purl Color Wheel Quilt Custom Fabric Bundle!
Joelle’s Color Wheel Quilt is one of our favorite projects from her new book, Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts. It is a spectacular heirloom, a treat for the eyes, and a fun color experiment. We couldn’t wait to get our hands on this incredible pattern and start picking out fabrics!
Luckily, the book includes templates for making the segments of the wheel as well as the background shapes and thorough details to help us along with its construction. Joelle explains how she cut and assembled the fabric, including tips on chain-piecing the segments together. That’s all very helpful, but one question remains:
How do you choose all those colors? The gifted colorists at Purl Patchwork have created a brand new Color Wheel Fabric Bundle to help solve this dilemma!
The Color Wheel Fabric Bundle includes 52 bright and brilliant cotton prints from some of our favorite designers to make up the color wheel. Each print is cut into fat eighths, or 9 x 22 inch rectangles which is enough fabric to assemble your own color wheel.
To complete the quilt, you’ll also need 7.25 yards of white cotton fabric for the background, quilt back, and binding; template plastic, pattern paper, thread, and a fabric marker, which are not included.
Update 2024: You can explore our current collection of beautiful fabrics and supplies on our page of Sewing Tools + Notions!
Fabulous idea! (ohh and all that gorgeous fabric *swoon*!)
oooooooooooo nice
How wonderful!
I remember telling Phyllis that the shop should have Color Wheel Quilt fabric bundles. So happy to see them…
Dear Sandy,
Yes! I thought your suggestion was such a good idea, thats why we made them. Thank you!! –Joelle
Wow. This is brilliant! A quick question – is there enough of each fabric left over after making the quilt to tackle some of the other projects in the book, such as Kathy’s lovely pencil roll? Or is the quantity just enough to make the quilt?
Do you know if this will be available up til Christmas? I’d love to make this quilt but on a student budget I would be pushing it. It’d be nice if I could wishlist it for my parents. LOL
Dear Meg,
There might be enough left over, depending on how carefully you cut your fabric. If you plan ahead in your cutting I would imagine you could get the pencil roll out of it and maybe Kelly’s Pincushions too. –Joelle
Dear Bronwyn,
We will keep this item available, though as the fabrics go out of print so quickly it may be made up of different prints by the time christmas comes around. –Joelle
Fabulous idea! I love the quilt and these colors are all ones that I don’t use. I think it would be great fun to work with different fabrics and the bundle will make it very easy. But I just tried to order and it looks like everyone else is thinking the same thing! I’ll keep checking back.
Dear Helen,
More are on their way! We’ll try to have them by the end of this week or early next week. –Joelle
this quilt is gorgeous!!
looks just like the color wheel from last minute knitted gifts…which i recreated for my day job.
*gasp*
*swoon*
Oh. My.
Just want to say that I am really loving the Color Wheel quilt. It’s pretty and practical.
A question: are these the actual fabrics used for the quilt shown in the book?
Dear Diana,
With a few exceptions, these are not the actual fabrics used in the book. Unfortunately, the fabrics go out of print so fast that many of them are no longer available. We selected the prints for the bundles to produce a quilt with a similar feeling. –Joelle
O my this quilt makes me want to learn to quilt. I really love this!
This is great idea! I never quilted before but I so want to make this quilt!
Got my fabric bundle and I cannot wait to start soon.
This quilt is stunning. Truly stunning. My own imperfect teeny tiny pram quilt inspired by this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/1756681461_818a9a41de.jpg?v=0
Thankyou for such beautiful things Joelle.
Is your book still available? I checked online and saw 0 in stock. I am new to quilting and am in awe of this quilt, going to by a bundle next week for this. If I can’t purchase a book, are the instructions seperate to purchase? Would you say a beginner could tackle this lovely quilt?
I’m really wanting to order this, but see there are no bundles in stock! Are you planning to put together more?
I bought your new book and love the book. I was also wondering if you are planning to prepare more Color Wheel fabric bundles?
Have a wonderful holiday.
Thanks,
Beth Britt
Hi Beth,
We’ve just made a whole bunch of new color wheel bundles. You can find them here:
https://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/accessories_notions_list/108
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts about the book! –Joelle
The color wheel quilt is so beautiful it makes me want to learn to quilt. But you’ve run out of color wheel bundles again! Will you be making more? Thanks.
Dear Lynna,
We’re a little short staffed at the moment and these bundles take a long time to make. We’ll be getting some done as time permits, hopefully soon! If you’d like to be notified when we do have some done send an email to our customer service address and they’ll let you know as soon as we have them available. [email protected]
This is just gorgeous!
I’d love to buy this color wheel bundle!
Will it be soon available?
Thank you
I just tried to buy the fabric bundle and it said that there weren’t any available. Is this true? When will it be available? I HAVE TO have this — love it!
Hi Kim,
We do have some available, siightly different fabrics, but the same idea. You can find them at this link:
https://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/accessories_notions_list/108
I am in love with this quilt and I featured it on my quilting blog! Thanks for sharing!
While this is so beautiful, and I love everything in it.. Is it actually used for something other than keeping warm? I am new to this whole scene, and I think it's aesthetically wonderful– just wondering if it had any real PURPOSE. Like helps you do something.. like a regular color wheel. Silly question I suppose..
-Molly
Hi Molly-
This is s quilt and it's practical purpose is to keep you warm and to look beautiful, nothing more or less. Glad to hear you're getting into the world of crafting and sewing and thanks for the question.
I am planning on making this for my love for Christmas… So excited and a little nervous as it is my first real quilt project! Just wondering: what white fabric do you recommend using? And what color thread? White seems a little dauting as we have young children, but I do so love the way the color pops out!
Hi Lizzie,
I recommend Kona Cotton for the white, the color "snow" is my favorite (cheerful and bright without being cold). For thread, a soft grey or dark off white is fine. Be sure to wash all of the fabrics before sewing the quilt and you'll be able to wash the finished quilt without fear.
Good luck!
Joelle
You can find our Kona Cotton right here:
https://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/item/1710-Robert-Kaufman-Kona-Cotton
I love the color wheel quilt and purchased the book and instructions. However, to fit on my wall, I need to make it smaller. The instructions are for 56″ square and my wall space is only 38″. Is there a way to “downsize” the quilt?
Hi Karen-
I haven’t tried this but I think you can shrink all of the pieces to 67% of their original size and just follow the instructions if you want to end up with a 38″ quilt. Let us know how it works out!
Thanks and good luck with the project!
Best!
Molly
When making this quilt- it’s pieced together in quadrants. Is there any downside to piecing together the colorwheel and then appliqué the wheel onto whole cloth?
Hi, Emma!
Thank you for writing in! You can certainly piece the colorwheel quadrants together and then appliqué it onto the whole cloth. Please let us know if you have further questions!
Best,
Kumeko