Color Play Friday - NYC

Good Morning Loves,

It's FRIDAY!  Oh how I have missed thee.  This has been such an emotional week.  It was so refreshing to think about all the wonderfully fabric choices there are in the world, it gave my mind a much need release of stress.

If you would like to see the photos for  Color Play Friday  as well as check out the guidelines we use, please refer to Lorinda at Laurel, Poppy, and Pine or Trina at In An Otter Life.  They can give you all the details of how you too may be a  Color Play Friday  participant.

Looking at this week's picture I wanted to try focusing on some colors I had not used before.  Really examine the picture.  However, for some odd reason I ended up thinking and feeling like a box of primary crayons.  You know the fat ones they make you use when you're still learning how to hold a pencil.  That thought made me search through my scrapbook stuff looking for my color wheel.  Didn't find it.  But there's always good ol' "Google" to help a girl out.

It's amazing to see how many colors there are.  After watching Lorinda on Periscope I too ordered a yard of cotton fabric with a Color Map on it from SpoonFlower.  I can't wait to get it.  It has over 1400 color chips on it plus their hex codes, which can be used to ensure that you are getting the true color you intended. For example on your website or in this case for creating fabric designs.  I just loved it and wanted it to help me find THE color.  You know, like a couple of week's ago.  This will help when I create that perfect purple bunny fabric.  I'll be able to make sure it IS the perfect color when I have it printed.  If your have no idea when I'm talking about see this CPF post.  Thankfully those codes are universal and work for everyone.  However, it does help to know a little about colors.

Like the fact that  primary colors are groups of colors that can be mixed together to create other colors, basically.  It also helps to understand that there are primary, secondary and tertiary colors.  Primary colors are those that can not be made by combining others: red, yellow, and blue.  You can make secondary colors by combining two primary colors: yellow + blue = green.  To make a tertiary color you can mix three colors, they can be primary or secondary to give you colors like:  red violet, lime green, and yellow orange.

Tertiary colors like grey and brown (brown, not the most loved color in the wheel) are made by mixing all three primary colors together.  As if that wasn't enough to remember you also have descriptions of color and my favorite color schemes.  You can go from hue, tint, tone, and value in descriptions (to name a few) into color schemes of complementary, monochromatic, and analogous (to name a few).  AND colors can be warm or cool (if you have ever worn make-up you know about that one, lol).

Knowing about color theory can be very helpful to artist of all kinds, including quilters.  Although I'm not particularly concerned about it most of the time, I like knowing a little, to be used when I feel like it.  It's a very interesting subject if you have time one day to do a little research.  I couldn't include it all here or this post would be too long for a CPF post.  But I did find these charts to be of great interesting and fun enough to share (and free to share)!

Birthday Color Wheel

I think my palette for this week reminds me of nap time, recess, Bomb Popsicles, and drinking from the water hose.  Ahh, back when being a youth was so simply.

The photo belongs to Lorinda (UPDATE: correction this photo belongs to Trina).  She was taking a bus tour in NYC, how exciting.

I'd like to present for your review, this week's photo featured with my "not so crazy this time, maybe" color palette/bundle for another edition of:

Color Play Friday - NYC:

Want to know all the details of where I spotted these wonderful fabrics:

Flicker Fog

By Angela Waters

For Robert Kaufman Fabrics

(actually backing fabric, so I would use it in this bundle for backing and 
fold over binding as well as to make some of the blocks with)

Green Tree Nature Print

Batik Cotton Quilting Fabric

Slice of Sunshine 

By Joanne Porter

For Wilmington Prints

AVW-15254-146 Mango

In the Bloom Collection By Valori Wells 

For Robert Kaufman

Color Movement - Sapphire

Kona Bay Fabrics 

Tooled Leather - Scarlet Red 

(pattern, not actually leather product, it is 100% cotton)

Moda Classics 

Grow in Tangerine

Sun Print Grow Collection by Alison Glass

For Andover Fabrics

Born to Quilt Sewing Machines on Black

By Another Point of View

for Windham Fabrics

You can see all my other CPF submissions here.

Don't forget to stop by and check out all the palettes/bundles of the other cool ladies participating in Color Play Friday.  They have the most amazing taste and a great eye for designing their bundles.

             Steph @ Shimmy and More (thank you so much for stopping by) 

                     Lorinda @ Laurel, Poppy, and Pine

                                   Trina @ In An Otter Life

                                              Mindy @ Quilting Mayhem

                                                           Sarah @ Goer.org/sarah/

                                                                     Yvonne @ That's So Creative

                                                                                    Bethany @ Sew Not Perfect 

We hope you will enjoy hopping around and checking out the different perspective presented by each of our quilting ladies.  It's always cool to see things from someone's else eyes and experiences.  You can also do a social media check for our palettes by using the hashtag #ColorPlayFriday.


Love and Shimmies,

P.S.  In order to create my color palette I used Moda Palette Builder 2.1.  When I first joined CPF this was the first palette builder to pop up in my search engine.  It's easy to use and gives you the colors based on Bella Solids.  If you want to see a really sweet color palette use the Birthday Color Wheel picture above, wow!  What sweet palette, I got the tingle of spring and the taste of cotton candy just staring at it.