Comments on: Creating a Color Palette

By: Janet Perry

Janet Perry — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:51:53 +0000

You can also get a sturdier on of these, made from red acrylic with a hole in it to see the plain color in quilting shops. It’s called, I think “Quilter’s Color Tool.” It’s smaller but I like that it’s so sturdy.

Keep Stitching,
Janet

By: Marlene

Marlene — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:17:43 +0000

Great post. For the longest time I had difficulty choosing even a simple selection of colors for a piece of needlework. A while back I took several watercolor classes and everything fell into place. I bought a watercolor color wheel and it shows not just the basic colors but a lot of in between shades. My teacher also advised us to buy a little piece of red acetate. When you hold it up to your yarn and thread selections, you can check the value. If all of the values are close together, you can either keep them that way (high or low key) or vary some. Checked my in-progress needlepoint nutcracker and discovered that it did not have life because I had picked out slightly darker valued reds to stitch next to blacks, cream whites,mid toned metallic golds, mid toned flesh colors and grays. Seemed to recall that the Needlepoint Book by Christensen had talked about color value. Checked my old edition. Back then, she had suggested making a black glass with auto glass and tar… not a easy project. Inexpensive red acetate (bought at an art supply store) is a much easier and obviously neater solution. A piece of red acetate will be slipped into my needlework project bag and also come with me when I an buying threads/yarns.

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Types of Color Schemes — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:05:21 +0000

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By: Ruth Molenaar

Ruth Molenaar — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:20:17 +0000

Excellent post. Color theory is one that I struggle with–I have read many different expanations; this is one of the easiest to understand—thanks

Ruth m