The Art of Choosing: Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! It's time for the first section of our series! Today we're going to discuss how to identify a fabric's overall color. This may seem somewhat straightforward, but it can be tricky! It will be really helpful later in the series when we discuss organizing a stash by color and creating color schemes! I've broken this section down into three different parts. 1. These are the freebies! 2. These fabrics are generally made up of one single color in addition to white. 3. These fabrics have generally a strong background color with small accents of other colors. 4.
Here is where things start to get tricky! 5. These fabrics are made up of many different colors and are therefore often difficult to identify. Analyzing Fabrics When analyzing a difficult (or any!) Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt This popular fabric is mainly made up of gold, pink, ivory, and brown. Midwest Modern II by Amy Butler.
The Art of Choosing: Organizing Your Stash by Color. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Stash StorageThis Week: Organizing Your Stash by Color Now that we have covered folding and stash storage options, let's actually organize those stashes! 1. 2. 3. So, let's dive right in! Unorganized Stack of Greens First, make piles for each color. Split Stacks Split each color into 3 different fabric groups. 1. Organized Stack of Greens Once you've got your fabrics all stacked and organized, put those stacks together!
This can be slightly time consuming, but I have found it's really helpful to reorganize my stash like this every 6 months or so in order to reevaluate my stash! In Color Order I organize my fabric by the following colors: Red - Pink - Orange - Yellow - Green - Turquoise - Blue - Purple - Cream/Tan - Brown - Black - White - Multi-colored. The Art of Choosing: Building a Well Rounded Stash. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color 2. Folding 3. Finally time to shop! Basics When I'm strictly stash building, I like to grab lots of basics.
Geometric Prints vs. Shopping for basics means more than just dots! Solids Stash building certainly isn't always about prints! Solid Alternatives On top solids, there are a lot of great solid-alternatives. My Favorite Stash Builders Joel Dewberry has done a great job of incorporating basics into his collections, especially in Modern Meadow and Aviary. I could go on and on, these are just a few of my favorites! Fabric Shopping I do 95% of my fabric shopping online. If you made it this far, good job! What are some of your favorite stash builders? The Art of Choosing: Reader Stashes! Pages This Blog Thursday, February 24, 2011 The Art of Choosing: Reader Stashes!
The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Tamiko @ Patchwork Notes Jessica @ Twin Fibers Amanda @ Flickr Erin @ Two More Seconds Yahaira @ Bitterpurl Lindsay @ Eileen Josephine Jennifer @ That Girl... Elizabeth D @ Don't Call Me Betsy Joan @ Wishes, True and Kind Rachel @ Stitched in Color Cindy @ Hyacinth Quilt Designs Megan @ Mia Dolce Originals Victoria @ Boutique Uniquely Thanks for sharing!
Posted by Jeni at 4:32 PM Email ThisBlogThis! Labels: The Art of Choosing 20 comments: twin fibersFebruary 24, 2011 at 4:46 PMWow, what beautiful fabric arrangements. Load more... Comments make me smile :) I'll answer questions here in the comments! Links to this post Create a Link Newer PostOlder PostHome. The Art of Choosing: Warm vs. Cool. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. This week we are going to talk about how to build one of my favorite schemes, a Warm vs. I first started playing around this concept after a happy accident. 1st Pull These are the fabrics that I grabbed to put together my stacks. Warm Colors For my warm color stack I choose red, light pink, fuschia, orange, and gold. Cool Colors For my cool color stack I choose lime green, turquoise, plum and light purple. 1st Edit These fabrics got pulled pretty quickly after my first pull. 2nd Edit These fabrics didn't make it for a variety of reasons!
Final Stack I finally ended up with this pair of stacks! I think the most important tip for putting together these stacks is taking care when choosing fabrics with accents. Well, there we go! A Quilt Along! The Art of Choosing: Building a Scheme Around a Single Fabric. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Stash Storage4. Organizing Your Stash by Color5. Building a Well Rounded Stash6. Today we're going to discuss building a scheme around a single fabric! Again, as you're pulling fabrics, keep a few things in mind! 1. 2. 3. Plum These two shades of plum were the two main colors in the fabric. Purple These two are more of a blue-purple. Green I choose a range of shades that were in the original fabric. Blue I added more blue than the swatches to add a little more depth! Blue/Green I couldn't help but add some blue/green fabrics!
Here are a few prints that I passed over while putting together my stack: 1. Finished Stack Finished! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! The Art of Choosing: Building a Scheme Around a Photograph. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Stash Storage4. This week we'll be discussing building a color scheme around a photograph!
First, here is the image that I'm going to be using for this exercise. 1. This is one of the coolest color tools on the web. I also love sticking a fabric swatch into Kuler. 2. This generator is a lot more simple and straight forward. 3. If you aren't interested in creating a color palette online, you can always do it by hand. Here is my fabric stack that I pulled from the Kuler palette! As always, don't hesitate if you have any questions! The Art of Choosing: Stash Storage. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process.
The purpose of this series is to arm you with the tools and knowledge to build your own color schemes for your sewing and quilting projects. You'll dive deep into your stash, organize it, and hopefully look at your fabrics in a new way.Fabric Stash Storage Ideas Time to discuss fabric stash storage options. I've been pouring over Flickr this past week looking for great examples. So, let's dive right in! Open Fabric Storage Many crafters choose to display their fabric stash out in the open on shelving. This allows you to see your fabrics all the time.
You do need to be mindful if your sewing space gets a lot of direct sunlight, as this can be damaging to fabrics. The Art of Choosing: Light vs. Dark. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Stash Storage4. Today we're going to talk about putting together a Light vs. 1.
For my examples today, I did three different color palettes. 1. Lights When pulling my lights I tried to focus on pastel colored fabrics. Darks I had a little trouble with the darks, since I don't have a lot in my stash. Finished Stack Here is my finished palette! These are a few fabrics I choose not to use when pulling my stacks. 1. 2. For this palette I pulled lots of purple fabrics, separating them into light and dark. 3. Here I decided to choose two different colors, pulling light pinks and dark yellows. We're getting close to wrapping up this series! The Art of Choosing: Supplementing a Fabric Line. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process!
Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color2. Folding3. Stash Storage4. Today we're starting the second half of this series: building different fabric combinations and color schemes! For this exercise I'm using the pink/brown colorway from Park Slope by Erin McMorris. As you're pulling fabrics, keep a few things in mind! 1. 2. 3. Here are a few examples of prints that I passed over when putting this stack together! 1. Now I'll show you my choices! Pink OrangeGoldPlumBrownMulti-coloredNow put it all together in a giant fabric stack! The Art of Choosing: Fabric Folding. The Art of Choosing is a series discussing fabric, color, and the fabric selection process! Here's what's been posted so far: 1. Recognizing a Fabric's Overall Color This Week: Fabric Folding I switched up the schedule a little bit so that the series makes more sense!
Originally we were going to be discussing how to build a well-rounded stash, but we're better off organizing our stashes before we do any shopping! ;) Today I'll be showing you how I fold my fabrics. When I started putting together this post, I was planning on taking photos of each stage. If you'd like you can watch all 6 folds here in one video, or watch the individual videos below: 1. 2. 1/4 Yard 3. 1/3 Yard This works great for any cut in between 1/4 and 1/2 yard!
4. 1/2 Yard 5. 3/4 Yard This works great for any cut in between 1/2 yard and 1 yard! 6. 1 Yard Hope that was helpful!