Sunday, February 2, 2020

Using Palettes

To help me figure out the colors I want to use for my quilting I often run photos of my fabrics or patchwork through DeGraeve's Color Palette Generator to get ideas. Here's a palette I made from the pic of the scarves I selected for my Feburary SCQ block:

The generator chooses the most dominant colors in the photo (and the brown and gray are from my table and cutting mat, so we'll disregard those two.) I was looking for a French feel ala France's flag colors, which I got.

When you have an image that you like, but that contains a lot of different colors, the generator helps by separating out the most dominant:

Palettes can also help with figuring out which colors to use for quilting or binding. Here's one I made from a pic of the table topper I'm working on:

I already had the quilting thread color picked, but based on this palette I chose black for the binding, which I think goes well as a framing touch.

To use the generator you do need a URL for the .jpg you want to make into a palette. I copy and paste the URLs blogger generates for my uploaded pics.

1 comment:

nightsmusic said...

I like this for when you can't quite decide if something will coordinate or not. Much better than guessing wrong and you don't realize it until you're halfway through - not speaking from experience! ;)

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