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May Color Palette Project

If you live in the US I hope you are having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Coincidentally I am readign a story about life in post-WWII Russia and it makes me even more grateful for those who serve to protect our freedoms.

While Mom is here quilting I enjoyed a morning in my garden and even enjoyed being outside and clean the back porch furniture. The spiders sure do take over quickly but I should be able to enjoy some iced tea in the rockers for a couple of days before they move back in.

Today I want to share my May color palette project. I finished it last night.

Earlier this week I saw a link to this tutorial. It's a combo pin cushion and caddy. I love pincushions and thought I needed one of these.

Made in the challenge palette and hand dyed fabric it looks like a giant blossom and I love it! I thought it would be great for my armchair sewing caddy since it will hold scissors and thread. But it turned out bigger than I expected.

It's nice and deep so I decided that it could reside in the middle of my cutting table and hold my rotary cutters.  I like it a lot and the tutorial is really well written and illustrated so give it a try!

May Color Palette Challenge

Yippee, the internet is back! I have so much to do and catch up on but let's get started with the Color Palette Challenge. If you created something for April please go to Judy's blog and post a link to your project. You will be entered to win a fat quarter pack of hand dyed fabric.

If nothing else, the palette for May will get you into a real Spring mood.

It might also make you hungry. Sorry about that.

I found this photo at photos8.org, a great source for stock photos. I thought these would be some fun colors to work with and would look great with white, black or even gray as a background.

Are you in? Remember, you don't  have to use all the colors and you have creative license to interpret the palette in a way that inspires you.

 

Color Palette Challenge Project

Anne gave me a couple of GO! dies for Christmas. One of them was the Heather Feather. Here it is April and I had not used it yet so I challenged myself to use it for my Color Palette Challenge project.

As if you could forget...the palette is based on Judy's moldy pie!

 

Here's my project. I've decided that I want covers for my sewing machines. They get so dusty in my sewing room. This month I'm covering the Pfaff. This cover is open on the right side. I did that because I often use thread from a cone so I use the thread stand. With the cover open on that side I will not need to unthread the machine to use the cover which increases it's chance of being used.

The cover isn't quilted. It's a simple cloth dust cover. I used my serger to finish the raw edges on the inside and for the hem. I cut one set of shapes from each of my 5 colors and just had fun arranging them on the cover. This is totally fused. I didn't even sew them down since I know it's not likely to be washed any time soon (or ever). 

For a quick project I think it turned out kind of cute and it shows that it's not a bad color palette after all and doesn't make me think of mold either.

How's your project coming along?

Color Palette Fabric Selections

It's time to take a look at the color palette and to start selecting some fabrics. Since the palette photo is so revolting to some people I'm going to skip that part here and start with my hand dyed selection. When I first saw the photo and created the palette I decided to play around with fabrics and created this palette. It's over a year later and I still like this collection of fabrics. If I were making a quilt I'd probably use either the darkest or lightest as the background and use the other of the pair as an accent.

Next I had to go through my stash and, surprisingly, found this fat quarter. It's the only fabric in my stash that has all of the palette colors. Next I started pulling some textures to blend with it.

I came up with these. This was a difficult palette to work with because all of the blues that would go with this print were used in my Teal Tomorrow quilt. I had to pull the 2 blues from my hand dyed stash. The reds and yellow are commercial prints. Because of the water color effect of the background fabric I couldn't really put distinct prints with it. All of the coordinating fabrics needed to be textures.

At least that's my opinion!

But, let's say that you don't really like the whole palette. That's OK, pick out the parts that you do like (or have fabrics for).

I could take the red/yellow parts of this palette and make a fun project with these prints. 

I hope you will join us for the challenge and I can't wait to see the fabrics that you choose.

April Color Palette Challenge

Before I explain thus unique color palette challenge I want to remind those who completed the March challenge to enter it on Judy's post. One entry will be drawn to win a fat quarter pack from my shop.

So, here's the color palette for April.

I created this palette just to show that you can get color inspiration from ANYWHERE. Back in 2010 Judy posted this. It was a funny story about finding this pie in her garage months after leaving it there in the winter to stay cool.....where she promptly forgot it. I thought the story was funny but the more I looked at it the more I focused just on the colors. I created this palette for her and she's been wanting to make something with it ever since and that's why it's your April color palette challenge!

Are you in? Remember, you don't  have to use all the colors and you have creative license to interpret the palette in a way that inspires you.