Color Theory!

Color Wheel Basics - Back in Stock!

This week we're talking about color palettes! First I'll talk about fabric but at the end I have some links for you that might help you pick color palettes for your projects.

Before I ever even thought about selling hand dyed fabric, I took a class with Jean Ray Laury that was nothing short of transformative. That class kicked off a long period of reading books and researching color theory. It even led me to pester an art professor at the local college to bounce off my conclusions. 

We are taught to thing that there's just one color system (wheel) but actually there are several. My research led me to the Munsell System and that's what I used to develop my Color Wheel set of fabrics.

This week I've restocked the Color Wheel "dark" Stash Packs and Fat Quarter sets.

Color Wheel Stash Packs also come on Medium and Light values.

There are Shades Packs for each of the 10 hues of the Color Wheel as well. 

​The Color Wheel Fabrics are always 20% off!
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Fabric of the Week!

Crayon Box Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday!

The Crayon Box Stash Pack is another set of fabric that's created from the Color Wheel colors but is not included in the permanent Basics sale. There are 20 textured fabrics. 10 are streaky fabrics, one in each of the 10 hues. The other 10 are mottled and are combination of 2 analogous hues. This week Crayon Box is 20% off through Sunday.
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Color Palette Tools

I know that lot of people like using color wheels to help select palettes for projects. I find them of limited value. For me, it's difficult to translate the bright red on a color wheel to a maroon that I might want to use. So I've found some online tools to help me out.

Canva Color Wheel - works by you selecting a main color and the color combination that you want and then the tool picks the other colors for your palette.

Coolors is a palette generator. It creates a 5-color palette from one color that you choose. It has more complexity than Canva and has a nice tutorial to walk you through how to use it.

Color Space creates several different palettes from one starting color.

Palette Generator creates a palette from any photo that you upload. I could play with this one all day!

Design Seeds is for those who want to find a pretty palette that someone else had already created for you. 

Here's a palette created by Palette Generator from a photo I took at the beach this summer. Have fun playing with these tools!