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I like most colors. I have to force myself to stock greens because I only like certain shades of it. Blues & reds are strong in my stash & I often use browns as blenders. I like earth tones too, but I try to add lots of color to my quilts.
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My favorite color is definitely purple, but I find I go in spurts. Lately my quilts have had a lot of pink in them. It just seems to go with everything. But I do have more blues than any other color - it also seems to go with everything. Hmmmm.... maybe I'll make a pink and blue quilt next!
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Yes, you sure are a purple kind a gal. Your basket, ironing board cover..........................lol Lovely quilt!
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Purples and pinks! The brighter the better! Lime green too! :)
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Oh my word bless you, bless you, bless you, you have set me free.I know I'm an old lady and this should have bee something I realized,but oh hell no.I have stopped dead in my tracks with everything trying to figure out how to finish off the bbottom of my ironing board.You know like the store bought ones.It looks like you pinned or stapled your.OMG I feel like the weight of the world just slipped off my shoulders,Thank you Sandy McClellan
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I am always on the lookout for beautiful yellow...more golden than lemon and blues and a touch of rusty reds
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Love love love purple and the quilt is gorgeous - guess I know what I'm making next
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I love all colors. I would hate to have to pick just a few favorite ones. I have a beautiful purple quilt my mom made for me.
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I am a purple also. I am trying to broaden my color selection though. I am doing a black and white with bright pink quilt for my hubby. I love your ironing board cover. Did you make it yourself?
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Great advice , thanks!
Originally Posted by deemail
(Post 4827945)
The trick to expanding your color palette is the contrasting and complementary colors for blue and purple...and some of the earth tones can play a part in these. When you shop you are thinking in terms of, 'do i love this color? do i want a quilt in this color?'.... Just try to pull the two or three blues that you want to use, take them with you BUT display them for yourself in the proportions you want to use them. Show 6" of the dominant fabric in the plan, but only 2" of one of the lesser fabrics...then 2" of another that might be included. Now when looking at the yellows (complementary for med blue, think french kitchens...they're always blue and white with yellow). But take that yellow and fold it down to 1/2 in to 1 in.... you won't need much to make your blues pop in a whole new way. Turquoise does the same thing for purples (so does sage green)...yellow can look good, too, but purple and turquoise is always a wow!
When in fabric stores, our eyes and brains are on overload.... calm down the stack of your choices and show them to yourself over on a corner or go to a place you can spread out a yard of beige.... now put in your tiny blasts of color to try. You can be guided by the tiny amounts of color in some of your purple print....there will be some there. AND don't settle on one... 3 purples in the darks...one darkest among these, then 3 mediums, then a couple of lights....now start putting in the tiny blasts of color (and pick 3 of those in the same shade, not just one. Keep the samples small, you don't need much). Jenny Beyer calls these 'zingers' and that's what they are. They're so easy to put in whether it's a tiny 1/2" flange border, or shadows under applique.. (i always line my appliques with bright colors that show just the tiniest bit ...makes them really alive), added details like an occasional piece in a block that us mostly purple in every other block or added appliques that are 90% purple with bits of other things here and there to set off your piecing... Please understand, i'm NOT trying to sell you on making yellow, orange, pink or green quilts.... i'm trying to sell you on making your purple quilts pop in a totally different way. we can see a couple of your quilts in the pix and obviously, you know how to piece precisely and combine your purples to show them off...but you are asking the question...so my assumption is that you would like to stretch your wings a bit... Ways to help yourself: 1. Look at purple prints on a large scale...not to buy, necessarily, but just LOOK....see how many other colors are there...your white will be in the background, but there will be small amounts of color splashes that make the purple better. These fabric designers are well educated in color theory ... let them teach you just by studying what they have done. 2. Look at decorator's magazines...find rooms that you love....what colors are there...it's not all one color...there are little hits here and there that make the rest of the room come to life...take all those colors and play with them in color cards (paint chips) or stash fabrics...see what happens...but remember the 'folding to the proportions you want'...it makes a big difference...we do not use our colors in the same size, choosing them that way is difficult. |
I tend to purchase blues, my boyfriend loves orange to my stash has a healthy dose of each! I love your quilt, the purples are awesome!
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Originally Posted by Dina
(Post 4827215)
Okay, I have finally accepted part of my problem with fabric selection. It is that I really don't like lots of colors. I like purple, blue, white, and earth tones. That is just about it. I just don't like other colors. I have been playing with the color wheel, reading about fabric selection, googling "how to select fabric for quilts," etc. But what it boils down to is that if it is a quilt for me, I prefer purple.
I should have know this already, as when I look in my clothes closet, purple and blue are the two colors I have lots of. (And purple is not that easy to find in clothes....) Anyway, here is my latest purple quilt. It is a Rail Fence in three shades of purple. If you look around my sewing room, and even at my stash, you see lots of purple. How come it took me so long to figure this out. Does anyone else have one color that just seems to be "their" color?? Dina |
oh how wonderful now I need a new ironing board cover (PURPLE).Love your quilt
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Originally Posted by SandyMac
(Post 4830390)
Oh my word bless you, bless you, bless you, you have set me free.I know I'm an old lady and this should have bee something I realized,but oh hell no.I have stopped dead in my tracks with everything trying to figure out how to finish off the bbottom of my ironing board.You know like the store bought ones.It looks like you pinned or stapled your.OMG I feel like the weight of the world just slipped off my shoulders,Thank you Sandy McClellan
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Originally Posted by petlover
(Post 4830701)
I am a purple also. I am trying to broaden my color selection though. I am doing a black and white with bright pink quilt for my hubby. I love your ironing board cover. Did you make it yourself?
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Color preference like everything else runs in cycles. I used to hate purple and now I LOVE it. And, there's nothing wrong with purple---we have a lady in our quilting group that loves it so much she almost always has something purple on--she even has purple shoes! We call her Purple Pat.
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My son loves purple, my grandaughter loves purple, so every once in a while I pick purple fabric to make some thing for them, I like all bright colors, I love the quilt you made, great job
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I love purple also. Great looking quilt BTW!
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I like Brights, lots of colors. The colors I like least are most browns, and some greens.
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I'd say you're addicted to purple, but then so am I, purple and teal are my favorite colors, but I've made many quilts not in that colorway and have survived with it not being purple. That's a lovely rail fence, love the purples that you chose. Every once in a while I stretch myself and do something in different colors and the quilt police do not knock down my door, so I guess that's all right. I once made a quilt for a friend. She had sewn strips of all her scrap fabric and then told me she wanted rows of red in between. My litany while sewing the quilt was "red is a neutral - red is a neutral" and got through it. Surprisingly, both my son and husband liked the quilt and the lady loved it, so no harm done. It did teach me to branch out into other colorways though, so I'm not just a teal and purple gal all the time. It doesn't hurt to step out of our safety zone from time to time.
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I have no idea what color I gravitate towards. I hope to discover my "color" when I clean/organize my sewing room. But I have a feeling it will be red.
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I also am a purple gal. Love your quilt.
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my aunt would be right at home in your room...she is making herself a Diva Den..her little space to get away to sew, read, listen to music, etc....PURPLE and black are her theme..hehehe
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I love your quilt. I also love purple. I tend to have lots of purples also. But I also keep quite a bit of fabric my daughter loves, as I make quite a bit of stuff for her. She loves brights. But give me purples any day of the week.
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What a beautiful quilt. I like all colors but if it has turtles than I am in.
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I love your purple quilt! I love scrappy quilts; however, red is my personal favorite.
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I looove that quilt!! I've not tried that pattern yet.
What no purple trim on the walls?( teasingly) love the purple extras in the room. I tend to gravitate to either oriental fabrics or soft patterns it's not so much colors but pattern with me. |
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
(Post 4832528)
my aunt would be right at home in your room...she is making herself a Diva Den..her little space to get away to sew, read, listen to music, etc....
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You are a purple person, so am I. I love purple. In fact, at work everyone wears purple on Thursdays for me! It started several years ago. Of course it is called, purple Thursday! I look forward to it every week. The quilt is lovely. I am about to start a18 inch middle square today for a Sister Sampler. There are four of us (best friends) going to do it. Of course, mine is purple and white. Keep making purple quilts, purple is the color of royalty you know! Oh and did I mention I am the queen of purple!!
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Colors
I tend to gravitate to any color that is not bright. Whenever I have made brighter things in the past, I get sick of them before even finished. I do like some of the more modern quilts but I don't like to sew them. I think some of Kaffe Fassett colors are wonderful, especially the ones that look old. I like to mix it up with hints of brights. I don't think all the historical fabrics were mud colored.
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Originally Posted by deemail
(Post 4827945)
The trick to expanding your color palette is the contrasting and complementary colors for blue and purple...and some of the earth tones can play a part in these. When you shop you are thinking in terms of, 'do i love this color? do i want a quilt in this color?'.... Just try to pull the two or three blues that you want to use, take them with you BUT display them for yourself in the proportions you want to use them. Show 6" of the dominant fabric in the plan, but only 2" of one of the lesser fabrics...then 2" of another that might be included. Now when looking at the yellows (complementary for med blue, think french kitchens...they're always blue and white with yellow). But take that yellow and fold it down to 1/2 in to 1 in.... you won't need much to make your blues pop in a whole new way. Turquoise does the same thing for purples (so does sage green)...yellow can look good, too, but purple and turquoise is always a wow!
When in fabric stores, our eyes and brains are on overload.... calm down the stack of your choices and show them to yourself over on a corner or go to a place you can spread out a yard of beige.... now put in your tiny blasts of color to try. You can be guided by the tiny amounts of color in some of your purple print....there will be some there. AND don't settle on one... 3 purples in the darks...one darkest among these, then 3 mediums, then a couple of lights....now start putting in the tiny blasts of color (and pick 3 of those in the same shade, not just one. Keep the samples small, you don't need much). Jenny Beyer calls these 'zingers' and that's what they are. They're so easy to put in whether it's a tiny 1/2" flange border, or shadows under applique.. (i always line my appliques with bright colors that show just the tiniest bit ...makes them really alive), added details like an occasional piece in a block that us mostly purple in every other block or added appliques that are 90% purple with bits of other things here and there to set off your piecing... Please understand, i'm NOT trying to sell you on making yellow, orange, pink or green quilts.... i'm trying to sell you on making your purple quilts pop in a totally different way. we can see a couple of your quilts in the pix and obviously, you know how to piece precisely and combine your purples to show them off...but you are asking the question...so my assumption is that you would like to stretch your wings a bit... Ways to help yourself: 1. Look at purple prints on a large scale...not to buy, necessarily, but just LOOK....see how many other colors are there...your white will be in the background, but there will be small amounts of color splashes that make the purple better. These fabric designers are well educated in color theory ... let them teach you just by studying what they have done. 2. Look at decorator's magazines...find rooms that you love....what colors are there...it's not all one color...there are little hits here and there that make the rest of the room come to life...take all those colors and play with them in color cards (paint chips) or stash fabrics...see what happens...but remember the 'folding to the proportions you want'...it makes a big difference...we do not use our colors in the same size, choosing them that way is difficult. |
Originally Posted by kathdavis
(Post 4828037)
I'm feeling it.
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Originally Posted by 117becca
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i know what you mean. While I do like all kinds of colors - the ones that I don't care for hardly are browns, earthtones, rusts....I want to make a quilt for a friend and those are the colors she likes the most - her least favorite color: blue.....my favorite color: blue..sigh....
Yes, understanding color theory has helped me to broaden my horizons w/ my decorating and quilting. One of my best friends on this site....we have so much in common ~ BUT our tastes in fabric .... she loves the new 'modern' designs, which remind me of the mod 70's, I'm such a floral person....BUT that is what makes our friendship so vibrant. |
I must have strong, bright colors--I'm just not a pastel kind of gal.
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I love blue best, but also purple. Happy to use other colors when I make something for people who love a different palate.
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I, too, tend toward purples & blues, but over the past couple of years I've forced myself to look at other colors, so I'll have a wider variety of colors in my stash.. I don't think I ever bought anything orange until last year. Take it slow, and before you know it, you'll have lots of different colors in your stash!!! It CAN be done!!
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Red is my color, with green a close second. Blue and purple are colors I don't have.
When I make a scrappy quilt I always have to buy blue and purple fabrics to balance out the colors. We all have colors we are naturally attracted to. Thats why there are so many colors of fabrics. :0) |
Hey we all have fav colors! Me, I am one of those who just love color PERIOD! I respond to each differently and wouldn't have it any other way. Whatever your current colors are, GO FOR IT if it makes you happy or feel good. Oh and by the way, purples are some of my favs, especially since iam a LSU grad, go Tigers!:)
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beautiful quilt. I love primary colors the most: clear reds, yellow, blue, green, purple. Just like a 8 pack of crayolas.
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My nickname says it all...my favorite color is purple. I'm drawn to the brighter jewel tones; I wear purple(lots of it),green,blue,teal,red,fuchsia and turquoise. I don't really like yellow,orange.
In my quilts I use lots of colors, I like to make scrappy type quilts. Its harder for me to just pick a few fabrics for a quilt. |
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