Color Choices

this could be scarey.... i've not looked yet but sounds like therapy. do i really want to know how weird i am? do i really want to know theres little if any hope for me? am i just too curious and will suffer whatever fate awaits me there? yup, thanks, Pat. :) cheers, jeanne

I didn't look at the site yet, but colors have a story how they become this particular color.

The base is always blue, red or yellow.

For instance take a red color and try to imagine if the color goes to the orange variant (red over yelow, like tomato red)) or the purple variant (like wine red, red over blue) With the first variant you can easely take lovely yellow, orange and bright green, with the second color you can use deep rich blue, purple and moss colored greens.

Just my two cents:)

Danuta

great you made it over :-D

welcome to the quilting frame!

one considers value? yikes - I just *do* it grab a bunch of fabrics and see what wants to play together

I quilt by the seat of my pants, whizzing downhill on a tray... wooo hoooo!!!

Thanks for the links, Pat! I'm currently forcing my guild to play with color with the block of the month. I'm in charge, so I get to decide! The block I handed out last night used an analogous color scheme. Each month, we will do something a little different. I think I'll include those links in my newsletter article.

Yep I made the jump:)

Hahaha, thanks for the welcome:)

I decided today to make a miniscule quilt and subscribed to this newsgroup instead:) I can't bring myself to work out the new ideas that float around in my head.......

For the girls in this group (and mayby the boys:) I'm Danuta, 51 years old, one daughter, one hubby, 3 cats and 2 mini sausagedogs........ Partly dutch, partly polish, hate windmills, don't walk on wooden shoes....I'm just your average witch with a malfunctioned broom and a love for sewing:)

Don't mind my bad Eglish, it will worsen as the night falls :)

Thanks, Pat. I love studying anything about color. I'll save these links for the weekend when I have some time for fun.

Kay Ahr in NV

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Pat in Virginia wrote: Color choices are important in a quilt. There is a lot to consider. Value, texture, shading, etc. Some quilters find color selection very difficult and agonize over it. Some have great color expertise and proceed with confidence. Others just wing it and hope for the best. (I'm in the last group.)

Today the About.com site has several features about color. These aren't about quilting per se, but may be interesting for quilters. NAYY.

Psychology of Color:

Good to see you among us. And thanks to Jessamy for helping to fill up the chairs around the quilting frame! Roberta in D, just a bit down the road

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Interesting sites! Way too theoretical for me though. My quilt recipients may read anything they want into my color choices. I plan to just keep on with the random method. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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Hi Roberta, thanks:) What is the D standing for, Drunen Deutschland or Denver?:)

Hmmm, scrap heap.....I'm just making machine-embroiderytest on all sorts of fabric, to test the fabric, the embroidery design and the colors I think that wil do the trick. I than take a photo and throw the tests in a basket.

Can I make some one happy with some of these testsscraps, mostly its cotton or some sort of satin, the designs are mostly flowerarrangements ?

I have envelopes, stamps and a pen:))

Danuta

all you have to do is start a new thread, tell people what you are offering to give away or swap and wait for your mailbox to fill with begs ;-)

people here *love* scraps!

YW :-)

yep there are quite a few guys here and *very talented they are too!

well you know what they say: they don't make broomstick like they used to and there is never a dwarf handy to fix them in the lowlands when you need one!

Deutchland :-)

:)) Thanks.......in 10 years time I will be living on her south border:)

Welcome Danuta I used to teach a young lady called Danuta! Coincidence. I make quite a few miniatures and belong to a small (he-he) miniatures group in the West Midlands of England. I hope to see some pictures of your work when you can. . In message , Granny Waetherwax writes

Becareful how you word the offer though. Some of us are a LONG way away ((VBG)) The postage can be a real killer!!

Welcome Danuta - from the Land Downunder.

The weather here has been the usual mix for spring equinox. Hot, then cold and then very very windy (100kph plus today), but it is now a quiet though chilly midnight.

Aaahhhhh! Peace at last!

Witches ride brooms because Nature abhors a vacuum.

Anne > YW :-)

Thank you, I thought I was the only one who wants to make things small:))

I will make pictures when its ready and ask my webmaster to put them on my site, I am not verry compatible with computerworks:)