Showing posts with label solid coloured fabric chart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solid coloured fabric chart. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Colour of Rain











This bottom photo was the view from out of the car window yesterday - a windy, rainy day for a refreshing adventure up island, with camera in hand. I like going out with no destination in mind, seeing where I end up and discovering surprises enroute. I have also purchased a few more solid coloured fabrics for my Nancy Crow workshop supply list, although I've decided to reduce the amount of colours I had orignally planned to have - I will still have lots. I continue to be amazed by the variety of colour and I notice how much satisfaction I get locating the appropriate place for another small swatch to go on the papers I've made up to track what I have so far. Sometimes a new colour doesn't fall into any of the categories I have and, of course, the 24 choices of various values that I'm working with are only a small sample of what's possible, but the bigger picture of colour is mind boggling - and exciting! I've also stitched a velvet backing onto the handstitched piece I am making, in preparation for more stitch on the front.


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Filling in the Rainbow

I'm just back from my quilt guild's annual 'garage sale' which was such fun to look at the multitudes of fabrics, books and other quilting related supplies. I found a Nancy Crow book and a few metres of solid coloured fabrics, among other things :) I will add snippets of the new colours to my developing chart which I made in a hurry and discovered just how tricky deciding what colour family fabrics are from, can be. I think I will learn alot just gathering the supplies for the Nancy Crow course!