There are 24 'pure' colours (yellow, chartreuse, yellow-green, spring-green, green, blue-green, aqua green, aqua blue, turquoise, cerulean blue, blue, blue-violet, violet, red-violet, purple, fuchsia ... you get the idea). This is printed in a big block at the top of the card; below are smaller blocks of tins (the pure colour plus white), shades (pure plus black) and tones (pure plus grey). These are used to pick and organise colours in a quilt and to check the colours of a fabric.
There's also an explanation of different colour schemes you can use: monochromatic (one pure colour and tints, shades, and tones of this only); complementary (two colours on opposite sides of the colour wheel); analogous (neighbouring colours on the colour wheel); split-complementary (combines complementary and analogous colours); and triadic (colours equally spaced on the colour wheel).
Each 'pure' colour is numbered and on the back of each card the numbers are given for the appropriate colours in each of the above colour schemes. It doesn't get much easier than this!
There's a card with an inch-ruler printed on the back of it, but for some reason there isn't the equivalent in centimetres, even though the next card is blank on the back. There's also a 'Fabric Preview' card with a square, triangle, and circle cut out. This makes it easy to see what a small piece of a fabric will look like. There's also a red plastic strip, this is the 'Value Finer'. It makes it easy to determine whether a fabric is light, medium or dark in colour. Sounds unlikely to you? Try it and you'll see it really does work.
The 3-in-1 Color Tool is small enough (about 8 x 2 inches) to be practical to carry around in your bag. I'd suggest using one of those stick-on note pads for writing down the colours you've chosen as you could then stick it into the colour tool. Then if you've got the one with you, you've got the other.
Create Your Own Quilt Labels is a collection of 65 patterns by Kim Churbuck for you to trace and colour using fabric pens. The book is handily spiral bound so it'll stay flat when you're trying to trace something. It's got 12 pages of instructions, which set out very clearly everything you could want to know, from which fabric pens the author uses to choosing a design, using border, hearts, appropriate colours, how to colour and get textures.
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