Showing posts with label Experimenting with Colour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Experimenting with Colour. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Colour Palette Play

On the way home from QuiltCon, the #ottmqgdrinkingteam, as we named the OMQG contingent at QuiltCon 2016, had some time to kill while waiting for our flight. After the excitement of a star spotting (which took me a month to figure out his name -- sorry Ken!), we got down to some play time. We couldn't let the QuiltCon good times end just yet.

I pulled out my box of Denyse Schmidt fat quarters (yes, I might have overpacked for Gwen Marston's Small Studies Improv class...oops) and wrangled my barely awake guild mates into a palette picker game. There's a tongue twister here, I think; How many palettes can a palette picker pick, if a palette picker could pick palettes? 18, apparently. 

Thanks @alisonharle for getting this photo!
An intense discussion about which green worked better with the palette. @aboutkirstin was laying bets about whether @slostudio and I would come to blows. True story. Not. ;)
Anyways, at first it was just putting together some colour palettes that we liked or thought worked well together. But then we got more daring and provided a challenge fabric to start us off. For me, that's usually brown or yellow. The results of our pre-boarding play are below.





















It was really fun to see what palettes each of us picked -- different styles and colour preferences made for some really interesting combinations. There were a few I never would have thought worked, but they did!

Hope you enjoyed following along with our game. :)

Friday, 22 November 2013

Experimenting

I've been piecing more Scrappy Trip blocks as leader/enders and just so I can get all of the blocks done by our first OMQG Sew-In this Sunday. I'd like to lay them all out and piece them during the Sew-In. Something I didn't expect in doing this quilt is how much fun playing with the colour palettes in each block would be.

Sometimes I tried putting some fabulous colours together….







Other times I just tried whatever and was pleasantly surprised by the result…





And other times I just tried whatever and got, well, whatever… ;)







It's going to be fun to put all these blocks together on Sunday!
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