Color?
#61
Originally Posted by tweezy50
I have been watching this board for a while now and have come to the conclusion that a lot of what makes a quilt pretty, beautiful, or gorgeous are your color combinations. Seems like most of you can take the simplest pattern and make it stand out by your color combinations. Mine on the other hand are .........yawnable, if there is such a word. I've got the light, medium, and dark down, but how do you decide which colors will "pop"? Please let me in on the secret. Apparently color coordinating wasn't one of the genes I picked up.
#62
Originally Posted by tweezy50
I have been watching this board for a while now and have come to the conslusion that alot of what makes a quilt pretty, beautiful, or gorgeous are your color combinations. Seems like most of you can take the simplest pattern and make it stand out by your color combinations. Mine on the other hand are .........yawnable, if there is such a word. I've got the light, medium, and dark down, but how do you decide which colors will "pop"? Please let me in on the secret. Apparently color coordinating wasn't one of the genes I picked up.
#64
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 3,255
Hi Tweezy, I live in Nebraska,also. Wondering in which part of the state you are living. I'm near Omaha. I struggle with color selection and usually just follow the colors of the pattern I am using. Although, at my first quilting class they did point out the little dots in the selvage and that does help. You can look for a focus fabric that catches your eye and then use the dots for coordinating fabric. One day when I was complaining to the LQS shop owner about my trouble with color, she said to me, well, did you dress yourself this morning because you seem to look OK. LOL. I do try to remember that.
#65
Originally Posted by Suziuki
If I am unsure about a color combination I take a photo with my mobile phone and have a look, this way I don't have the distraction of other bolts of fabric to confuse the issue.
#66
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
Posts: 117
Originally Posted by suern3
Hi Tweezy, I live in Nebraska,also. Wondering in which part of the state you are living. I'm near Omaha. I struggle with color selection and usually just follow the colors of the pattern I am using. Although, at my first quilting class they did point out the little dots in the selvage and that does help. You can look for a focus fabric that catches your eye and then use the dots for coordinating fabric. One day when I was complaining to the LQS shop owner about my trouble with color, she said to me, well, did you dress yourself this morning because you seem to look OK. LOL. I do try to remember that.
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