Originally Posted by cdmmiracles
So did you have to use 3 different shades of each color? Or is it just the placement that creates the illusion?
Yes it's 3 different shades of the same colour. Karen Coombs has a range of fabrics called Shade Cascade (Blank Fabrics) that has 4 shades of the same colour in stripes across the width of the fabric. Some of the fabric I used were those and some were just whatever I had.