Fabrics for January Palette Challenge
January 4, 2012
On Fridays Vicki will be doing “lessons” on color and sharing some tips for fabric selections for each month’s color palette challenge. I figured I’d get my fabric choices done and share them with you before Vicki does her first lesson and then we all can see if I made bad choices! 
This is the palette:
These are the fabrics I chose:
Even though the bright green is almost exactly the same shade as the green in Vicki’s palette, it seemed too bright next to my other fabric choices so I chose a bit darker green and kept all the other fabrics.
The darker green works better to my eye but I’ll be very anxious to read Vicki’s posts regarding the colors she would use.
Have you started looking for fabrics for your project yet?
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Not yet, I am working on finishing the UFO first so I don’t get distracted and add “another” UFO to the list! But I was thinking about how much I need some new pillow covers so maybe I will use the color challenge to do pillow tops. That way it’s a small project and I shouldn’t have any problems getting them done! It would also be a “little” more challenging than a potholder
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To my eye the duller green matches the palette better. Good choices. Nope haven’t looked yet but I will be. Might only be something small but then it can be a done project.
Hugs!!!!
Hi Judy, I am a lurker to your site and I really enjoy it. I am usually not inclined to make comments, but for some reason, I am today. LOL
I looked at your fabric layouts and I would like to make a suggestion. Take another look at the brighter green but show less of it. I think it would make the other colors pop!!! The darker green just seems to keep everything in the same value so it’s not as exciting as the brighter green combo.
I might be totally wrong and the colors on the computer might not be doing justice to the fabric colors. But I think it’s worth a second look. JMHO……..
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
Fran
I had a really hard time deciding which shades to go with. My computer screen is very different from what I got when I printed the image to take to the store. So I’m sure I’m probably off with my result. I did my best, but I think 2 of my choices have strayed from the palette. Hopefully the quilt police won’t mind
Quilt police don’t have a say in this challenge! We’re having fun and learning to work with colors we might not otherwise work with. Glad you’re participating.
i agree that the darker green matches the colors better, but that light green really would have popped the quilt.
correct me if i’m wrong, but the last shade in the color swatch looks more like an aubergine (9900 139) from Bella solids than a light tan.
i have my colors chosen….am using solids from Kona. i had trouble with the last color but think i am ok. i pulled a tile type applique from EQ and am going to make 6 of those and have a table cover or something along those lines.
not sure what pattern – how much green will be in the quilt… but I’d go with the fabrics in your first photo, with the brighter tone… otherwise if they’re all the same shade of darkness the pattern may become muddy and blend together too much?? Just my $0.02.
I do like the blues and purples together – the color palate is pretty.
Love from Indiana! ~bonnie
Hello Bonnie from IN. I’m from northern IN.
Hello Neighbor! My husband took a job in Louisville, KY this summer and we moved from Texas to Indiana…. funny how we’ve always lived on the border in every state we’ve lived in over the years.
Hi, I lived in Louisville, Ky all my life. 6 years ago I moved to Germany. But always go back for family!
I thouht the green was a little muted at first. But knew computer and in hand can see totally different. I love it!
I agree with Bonnie on the first photo. The lighter green lightened up the blue next to it giving the palette some ‘pop’
I would use the 1st group with the brighter green – to give some ‘snap’ to it. (Use less bright green than the other colors). That’s just my little opinion about how I see colors.
I’m voting for the first set. The lower group seems lifeless, no pop. JMO
I would use both greens — the brighter one in fewer amounts but it does add some POP, and the other green when the first green is shouting too much.
I know it’s not my choice, but I am gonna throw my 2 cents in the kitty, and vote for the first green you rejected!
just seems to bring the other colors to life, and since the fabrics all “read” as solids, they need to have a little punch. IMHO 
I am wondering that since we are viewing the color palette on a computer screen, if there will be a bit of difference in how we interpret the colors. I have mine picked out and had a hard time finding one that I thought fit the brownish purple.
Bearing in mind what Sharon said above about things on the screen looking different from IRL, I prefer the brighter green in the first set too. For the same reason as everyone else, it gives the set a bit of vibrancy and ‘pop’.
Hmm – I have to go with the second group because this is a color challenge. Here’s my reasoning.
Hue = the purest color
Tint = white added, so paler, softer
Shade = black added, so darker, deeper, richer colors
Tone = Black & white added to “gray down” to be in-between a tint and a shade.
I read the tile and Vicki’s palette as having the same tone. The only thing that pops on the tile is the white flower. The green blends in with the blues and purples. So, to me the challenge is to use fabrics with the same tones and be without that “pop” that we are so used to having in a quilt.
If you have seen Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics, their palette is “tones” and quilts made with all Cherrywood are beautiful without having brighter colors. So, I think the trick will be to play off the light vs darker colors.
Oh, I have some fabrics selected and I had a hard time with getting a good photo to get all the colors that I saw in person to match to what turned up on my computer screen. Natural light worked with some of the colors and flash did better in showing the olther colors.
I like both of your choices a lot. I’d probably go with the brighter green but I always tend toward acid colors as a highlight. At the end of the day it’s totally a matter of personal preference!
I not only chose my fabrics but have the little quiltlet designed and put together. It still needs quilting but that will come later. I am very happy with this challenge as it is making me put different fabric colors together, ones I might not have chosen myself.
I started playing with the colours in EQ and everything looks like mud. Have not looked at my teeny stash yet.
I have — posted them on my blog at http://thatyankstitches.multiply.com/journal/item/248/Starting_off_2012_with_a_bang...
If you are trying to use Vicki’s pallett, then choose the lime green. Also , where is the mauvy color ? Your choices read flat. Come on now , get out of the box , I’m trying to ….
I think I got my colors picked out. Question: does the fabric have to be an exact match or just a fairly close interpretation? Because my understanding is that the challenge is to expand the colors that we work with and to get us out of our “normal” color range.
I’m excited. I can’t wait to see what I come up with.
Just close! I’m working from my stash and not buying anything. I think that with the difference in monitors and printing, even if we were trying to get EXACT, we’d have a lot of differences. For me, it’s like you understand — just expand your horizons.
I’m excited to see what you come up with too and I’m glad you’re participating.
I have the fabrics picked from my stash, but I am having trouble finding a project.