Thread: How Do You Rate Your Color Sense?

I do best when I pull colours from a print, photo or other palette.

I love pinterest for finding different colour combinations.

My son wants a red, black and white quilt. That is easy, I have been collecting prints for a year now. My challenge is deciding on the pattern and cutting up the fabric.

Back in the 1980's I made a Quilt in a Day Trip Around the World quilt. It was peach and green (very 80's colours), one of the greens is too dark. It has bugged me ever since, but not enough to take it apart and change it out, especially 30 years later.

I love primary colours for flannel and denim rag quilts. I do not worry about the colours for them.

Originally Posted by quiltstringz

I normally feel comfortable with my color choices. The only time I have second guessed is in a Mystery quilt, then although I like my colors if I had been aware of the pattern may have used them differently. Usually if you lay all of your colors down and you are happy with them you will be happy with your quilt

I had a bad color choice experience with a mystery quilt and have decided not to do any more of them.

I don't think I have much color sense. I love scrappy and when I do something that isn't scrappy, I have a difficult time finding 'coordinating' fabrics. Just not my thing. Plus, I mostly do not care what anyone thinks. I just have fun and that is my main goal in quilting...to make it an enjoyable hobby and not one to please others. If my projects come out great and others like them, it is a double bonus! :-)

I'm very confident about the colors I choose. Probably because I don't care if anyone else likes my quilts.

GBATT = getting better all the time

I'm confident of my colour choices because I audition my fabric on the Design Wall. I really don't care what other people think.

But if I'm making something for someone else, I do try to use colours or styles that I know they like.

There are some excellent books, sites, and pinterest colour boards for newbies. An easy trick is to find a print you love and pull colours to go with it using those handy little dots in the selvedge.