Category: Color

  • Tupperware to the rescue!

    Tupperware to the rescue!

    I hope you haven’t minded my little stroll down memory lane as I say goodbye to the Christmas ornaments I made for my two daughters. I have been doing other stuff too. Mostly simple color exercises. I’m having fun using (gasp!) traditional quilt blocks to explore color theory. I’m also doing a few other compositions…

  • Black Friday 2010

    Black Friday 2010

    My favorite fabric store, Fabric Shack in Waynesville, Ohio, thoughtfully had a Black Friday sale yesterday. Since I missed out on the little netbook I wanted to buy, I decided to console myself by making the thirty minute drive to see what they had on sale. I was hoping to beef up some of the…

  • Fabric stash reorganized

    Fabric stash reorganized

    I’ve been having so much fun reorganizing my fabric stash. It’s almost as fun as shopping and adding to my fabric stash! Either way, I enjoyed running my fingers over all that lovely fabric, and sorting them all by color family. It gave me time to reunite with some beautiful favorites. I put everything away…

  • Sorting fabric

    Sorting fabric

    Yesterday I cut more paper swatches from my Color-aid pack, mostly in the muted tones. I sorted to my heart’s content and then glued the color variations for each hue on a different 12″ by 12″ paper. There were fourteen sets of extended colors in all, which basically covers both color wheels since cyan and…

  • Color Wheels

    Color Wheels

    I’m still playing with the paper from my Color-aid pack that was left over from college. All the pretty colors! Since I’m an organizer by nature, I really appreciate how this pack of colors is organized with the entire range of pure colors, tints, shades, and tones. I decided to make a few color wheels…

  • Color Chart

    Color Chart

    For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with color. I finally remembered the ridiculously expensive pack of Color-aid paper that I had left over from my college classes. It has a huge range of colors — 312 in all. I thought it would work great to make my own color wheel but when…