I'm very confident about the colors I choose. Probably because I don't care if anyone else likes my quilts.
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GBATT = getting better all the time
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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. |
I am not confident at all of my color sense. I have a couple books on the subject that have helped, but I usually pick out a fabric with lots of colors that I like, then use that to select other fabrics. Sometimes I don't even use the original fabric in the quilt, just use it for color selection.
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I just look outside and see the colors of Mother Nature and I'm good. Sometimes the different hues throw me off.
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I do pretty good picking colors. I never follow a color wheel. If I like something together, I use it.
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I'm kind of "into" the matchy thing, so I think my quilts are pretty successful color-wise. I get into trouble when I start mixing scrappy, odd colors together.
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I feel good about my color sense although of course we are all always improving.
An exercise I found quite helpful was to make a scrap quilt with a number of HST that were light/dark, done completely at random. I used some of my fabrics, some from old clothes and some from another quilter so the palette was larger than just what I typically use. I found myself analysing (but no changing!) each pair, looking at value, hue, color, warm/cool and observing what worked and what didn't. Even the pairs that didn't work well mostly played well in the final quilt. |
I have no confidence in color selection of fabric. I stew and stew about it, but my quilts usually turn out looking good. I am very fond of two color quilts or quilts with many shades of the same color. Those I am confident of...not so much anything else.
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Originally Posted by Boston1954
(Post 7011594)
Sometimes when I am auditioning fabric for a new project, I think it looks great.....until I start sewing and then I wonder if other people will say to themselves, "those don't go together".
How often do you say "not everyone is going to like this"? On a scale from 1 to 10, how high do you put your choices? Of course I know that there are no quilting police, but I was just wondering. |
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