Help with watercolor quilt

It's duplicate for me; but not to worry - some folk do not get all the messages! . In message , MaleQuilter writes

Instead of buying a reducing glass, you can go to the hardware store and buy one of those little peephole things like you would put in a door. It looks like this: . It works well and is probably less expensive. Or look through the view finder on a camera or the wrong end of binoculars.

Julia > Maybe looking at the wall/fabric squares with a reducing glass might help!

NOW you tell me Julia!! lol

Try looking through a colour filter (a Ruby Beholder or sheet of red or green cellophane) to see the true colour values. Your eye will be dragged back to that one area you aren't sure about whether it is "wrong" or not and seeing the overall effect through a colour filter (like seeing it on B&W TV) will stop your eye going straight to that one fabric.

The wrong end of my binoculars didn't show me anything , but I do use a peephole quite successfully. As you say, Julia, they're a lot less expensive than a reducing glass! :)

I presume this is in the books, but one tip I read, was first organise your fabric scraps into light medium and dark, then within each group, arrange again, so you have light-light, light=medium, light-dark and so on, I guess if you still have problems with value on that basis, you might have to split the groups down even further, but that grouping seems to work quite well for a nine patch on the boundaries.

Anne