Fabric

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I think the timing of this photo is very appropriate since we've had warm, springlike weather the past couple weeks here in California. However, that is all changing today with a big rainstorm coming in. The photo is Pink Poppy, taken by Lorinda in her garden last summer.

This week I took a different approach to pulling my palette for Color Play Friday. I pulled a larger variety of colors to start with (17 colors to be exact) and then viewed fabrics on Hawthorne Threads using their color grid and any dominance. Since I'm generally drawn to blenders, using the any dominance option brought up quite a variety of multicolor prints. I settled first on the Quills and Arrows print because it contained so many of the colors in my potential palette. It was practically made to pair with this photo!

At the risk of too much busy fabric my second pick was Evenly Smudged. That choice led me to Writings in Boards from the same line. These first three choices of fabrics helped me narrow down my color palette. I found that having a larger palette to start with gave me more options for finding good fabrics, which in turn drove my final color palette selections.

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

Solids:
Kona Citrus
Kona Aloe
Kona Baby Pink
Kona Emerald
Kona Blue Grass

Prints:
Quatrefoil Medium in Yellow by Riley Blake Designs
Quills and Arrows in Turquoise by Maude Asbury, Blend
Libs Stitches in Baby Pink by Karen Lewis, Robert Kaufman
Writings in Boards by Sew Caroline, Art Gallery
Evenly Smudged in Joy by Sew Caroline, Art Gallery

Check out the other palettes this week at:

See other palettes on Instagram at #colorplayfriday.

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo.

 

I'm going to use this opportunity for my official check in for week 4 of the 4x7 challenge. While it's possible that I didn't sew a stitch in week 4, I did work for way more than 30 minutes each day on a big sewing related task that was just for me. After three years sewing downstairs in the front room of our house, I've moved into the upstairs office. That required cleaning out said office as well as moving all the sewing related stuff into it's new home. Full sewing room tour later, but here's a glimpse of the room. This is nearly my full stash. What a beautiful view! This project has taken a lot of time and energy, and I started it right after QuiltCon (which was awesome, but exhausting)... now to find my sewjo... I'm sure it's around here somewhere.

I'm linking up to Sarah's final 4x7 Sewing Challenge check in post.

 

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This week Lorinda picked Trina's photo NYC. I love the variety of bright colors in this one. I think there were a lot of options and I can't wait to see what everyone else came up with!

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

This week I really wanted to make an effort to include some non-blender fabrics. I ended up with one. I'll call that a partial win. I like that Tree of Life in Cinnamon brings in some of the yellows/golds with the red background. And once I saw the Manuscript print I just had to use it. I really like the lines. Both Manuscript and the Ladder Lines made me think of the lines you see when you're looking at a street full of buildings in New York City.

Solids:
Kona Canary
Kona Sunny
Kona Amber
Kona Cedar
Kona Tomato
Kona Regal

Prints:
Medium Damask in Yellow on White by Riley Blake Designs
Woven in Butter by Kaffe Fassett, Westminster/Free Spirit
Crossed Impressions in Solar by Katarina Roccella, Art Gallery
Ladder Lines in Yarrow by Carolyn Friedlander, Robert Kaufman
Tree of Life in Cinnamon by Tula Pink, Westminster/Free Spirit
Manuscript in Navy by Amy Sinibaldi, Art Gallery

Check out the other palettes this week at:

See other palettes on Instagram at #colorplayfriday.

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo.

Thanks for visiting!

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This week Trina picked Lorinda's photo of Skywalker. Since I've used green the past two weeks I wanted to avoid that obvious color. I also wanted to avoid brown (sorry, Skywalker!) since I have an aversion to it in quilts. That left me with limited options and I decided to go for this greyscale palette. You could easily add a color (like green), because I think pretty much anything works with a black and white palette.

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

I love that my fabric picks feature two Alison Glass fabrics (love her work!) and two from Karen's Blueberry Park line (every time I see these I wonder why I don't own more of them!). The Kite Tails fabric reminded me of a country fence. I chose Bergen for the natural shapes and the Grow and Dalmatian prints for their representations of nature. I especially like the butterflies in Grow (again, why don't I own this!?). :-) I think a solid white could be used instead of Ink to give the eye more of a place to rest.

Solids:
Kona White
Kona Ash
Kona Steel
Kona Coal
Kona Charcoal
Kona Black

Prints:
Ink in White by Alison Glass, Andover Fabrics
Kite Tails in Silver by Karen Lewis, Robert Kaufman
Grow in Andesite by Alison Glass, Andover Fabrics
Bergen in Slate by Lotta Jansdotter, Wyndham Fabrics
Painters Canvas in Black by Laura Gunn, Michael Miller
Dalmatian in Black by Karen Lewis, Robert Kaufman

Check out the other palettes this week at:

See other palettes on Instagram at #colorplayfriday.

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo.

Thanks for visiting!