I am one little step closer to making a swoon quilt. I am having trouble with the colour scheme and I want David to also be happy with it also (ie not too girly or floral). I decided to look through Design Seeds for some colour palettes, printing off half a dozen that appealed to me. I tend to lend towards blues/greys/creams when I decorate my bedroom, so I deliberately tried to pick out some greens as well.
Then I used a really neat website, that I just happened to read about today on a blog, to do some digital versions of the swoon quilt. The website is Quiltr, and it has a lone star block that happens to be fairly similar to the Swoon block. So I plugged in some colours and printed off the 'quilts'. I am going to let David decide which one we should go with, and then I will hunt out fabrics to match the appropriate Design seeds colour swatch.
Once decision I have made with regards to the Swoon block, after seeing lots of them pop up on blogs and on Flickr, is that I prefer the look of a dark tone in the centre star and its radiating points, and a lighter tone (even better its a light tone of the same colour) for the other feature colour. So that's how I will use my design seeds colour palettes when selecting fabric. ie the lightest tone on the palette will be the background colour, the two darkest tones will be used for the centre star and radiating points and the mid-tones will be used for the other colour components of the Swoon star.
I *think* I know which one is my favourite colour scheme. I'll be back to let you know what David decides on.
1 comments:
I have a FQ bundle here I was planning on using, just to use, nothing exciting. I think it will be too light to get the real "pop" affect so look forward to seeing what you pick.
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