This is the fourteenth in our series of staff project posts created for the Spoonflower Staff Quilt Challenge. Voting for this contest opens tomorrow, Thursday, 3/14.
For the 2013 Spoonflower Staff Challenge, our team decided to make an unconventional quilt. As printer operators, Adam and I (Kelsey) are constantly working with color, while our other teammate, Chad, spends most of his time in the Engineering Department. So, in order to use everyone’s talents, we came up with the idea of an illuminated color wheel quilt.
The first step was to design a color wheel.
After we established the concept, Adam utilized a few functions in Adobe Illustrator to make the base of the design. First he used a little math to separate the circle into 60 equal sections.
Once Adam had the angle for each section he used the “Copy Rotate” feature to complete a 6 degree rotation, and then used Command D until he was back at the beginning.
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