{"id":5139,"date":"2012-08-23T06:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2012-08-23T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:56:31","slug":"colour-palettes-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/08\/23\/colour-palettes-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour palettes No 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent a few very enjoyable hours choosing colour schemes and patchwork fabrics for a class project. The first colour scheme wasn&#8217;t too hard, as I had already planned it out. It was simply a matter of finding fabrics with those colours.<\/p>\n<p>The second colour scheme was much harder, as I had not properly planned a second colour scheme and was sort of winging it! I stumbled around looking at fabrics, not really making any progress. The shop owner felt a little sorry for me and started suggesting some things.<\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered the second post I planned to write on colour palettes! (You can find the first one <a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/08\/17\/colour-palettes\/\" title=\"colour palettes\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re stuck for a colour scheme as I was yesterday, one way to figure something out is to work with what someone else has already worked out. By this I mean use the colours in a patterned fabric.<\/p>\n<p>If you look along the side edges of a fabric (called selvedges or selvages) you&#8217;ll often see a white strip on one of them, sometimes with the name of the fabric design, the designer, and little spots of colour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2.jpg\" alt=\"choosing a colour scheme\" title=\"colour-palette-2\" width=\"499\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2.jpg 499w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colour-palette-2-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a>You can see the spots in this example. They show all the coloured fabric inks that have been used to print the fabric. <\/p>\n<p>Looking along the spots, you can choose all or some of them to use in your colour scheme. I&#8217;ve chosen spots 2, 4, 5, 9 and 10. (I realise it is not a terribly exciting or inspiring colour scheme, but it is just an example!)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was eventually able to come up with a very satisfactory second colour scheme by using the one that a fabric designer had already worked out. (Not the one shown!) It made things so much easier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent a few very enjoyable hours choosing colour schemes and patchwork fabrics for a class project. The first colour scheme wasn&#8217;t too hard, as I had already planned it out. It was simply a matter of finding fabrics with those colours.<\/p>\n<p>The second colour scheme was much harder, as I had not properly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-hints-and-tips","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}