Ditter43

K....Thanks for this exercise...I think it's an area we all have problems with!!

Ditter

bearisgray

Interesting exercise. Lovely colors.

amma

It looks like you hit the nail square on the head K :D:D:D
Those fabrics are gorgeous and perfect for a storm at sea quilt :D:D:D
Have you started cutting yet :wink:

kwhite

Nope. I am waiting for Gai to pick her fabrics. Then we will try to do it together.

sewcrafty

WOW!!! Very interesting!!! Sorry about leaving 3 of them out!! Must have brain-farted!! :lol: :lol: Boy, looking at the B&W's are really deceiving!! Taught me something!

barnbum

Wow--interesting.

Holice

The list appears to me to be not so much value but scale of some of the prints. I personally would not use the very large prints, those blocks would tend to draw the eye away from the rest of the quilt. Scale is as imporant as value or Hue (color).

earthwalker

Well, there certainly is a difference when you are faced with colours (your choices are beautiful by the way). This has been a really thought provoking exercise....Holice's comments about scale is something I had not really considered, though, perhaps when we are auditioning fabric, these things are unconciously considered. I rather like mixing scale, but then I have no formal training and my stash is eclectic to say the least (when reading the "ugly fabric" posts, I almost always like them).

Holice

I attended a lecture/workshop today with Sally Collins - a master of precision piecing. She spent some time explaining how she selects color. She picks a main fabric that has good color combinations in it. She doesn't use this fabric in her quilt but takes color from it.
From this piece she will select the basic colors - say 4 or 5. It is the combination of the colors that appeals to her.
And then selects a background which may be one of the colors. Then she arranges a group of values of each of the colors with fabric. Each color may have 5 or 6 values that she will use. Then she mixes them all up and resorts in light, medium and dark and then begin to cut and piece.
She does a mock up of the block first to see if she has arranged to her satisfaction.

bearisgray

Jinny Beyer had a book about color -

what she suggested - choosing a focus fabric with several colors - match the colors in the fabric - then use colors to "bridge" between the "matched" colors - and then to use the "bridge" colors instead the "matched" colors in the blocks.

Made for a much more interesting quilt.

When I first started, I was really into trying to match colors "exactly" - even if it was only a flower that was 1/8 inch across that one couldn't see from five feet away and didn't even "read" in the fabric from a distance.