Originally Posted by
sewbizgirl
In the introductory post (where we got the color card numbers) Bonnie did tell us which of the colors on the card to be aiming at and which to avoid. For the aqua she said to match nearer the palest or medium chip, but avoid the darkest chip on the card. That one would look too close to the green we were supposed to be matching. And the green was supposed to be the darkest/brightest green on its card. She has some illusion in mind, and if you don't pay attention to the values of the colors, as well as the hues, yours won't have the same 'punch'.
Now bear in mind that I DID NOT go to Lowes to get paint chip cards.
When I first looked at Bonnie's intro which included the yardage and colors, and photo's of the hotel ... I did notice that the ceiling she referred to as "turquoise" in the photo's looked a bit more mint green than blue to me, but the photos of the paint chips and the photo's of her samples of turquoise looked to me what I would call blue ... or aqua.
So I agree with ... understand what SueSew is saying
That said ... I'm going with the color of "aqua" that I had in my stash, making sure none (OK .. most) are not so dark in value that they mimic the green.