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Color Realizations {& Giveaway!}

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Many makers have a signature style, a color palette they visit again and again, or perhaps an aesthetic that just makes their heart sing and their makes shine. We all know how much I love a rainbow, but recently I’ve felt the need to dive into other color combinations and experiment elsewhere. I’ve tried color combinations that have felt way out of my comfort zone, played with more monochromatic palettes, and have experimented with predetermined colors (paired with improv, no less!). While I do love the makes I’ve created through these experiments, I’ve realized that I truly love a rainbow gradient, but more specifically, I’m drawn strongly to tertiary colors.

color star tertiary wikipediaAs a refresher, the tertiary colors are the ones that fall between the primary and secondary colors, namely: Vermillion (red-orange), Amber (orange-yellow), Chartreuse (yellow-green, or lime), Teal (green-blue), Violet (blue-purple), and Magenta (purple-red). Thank you, Wikipedia for the great graphic! Even when a project isn’t a full rainbow spectrum, if it consists of tertiary colors it still makes my heart sing. Primaries? Not so much. Secondaries? Meh. Tertiaries? Oh, yesssss! All the colors? Even better!

I’ve decided that once a few last non-rainbow projects are completed, I am going to let go of my hesitancy to creating rainbow-everything. I will embrace my rainbow-loving self and create a rainbow-filled world! I have some really fun projects on the horizon and I can’t wait to share them with you!  Do you have a specific color combination that makes your heart sing and your eyes turn into hearts? Tell me about it in the comments and enter to win a great bundle of some of MY favorites!

Giveaway Time!

turn up the volume bundle for fat quarter shopToday’s giveaway is generously sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop. When it was time to select the giveaway bundle for the month, this lovely Turn Up the Volume bundle curated by Rebecca Mae Designs caught my eye. Can you tell why? Tertiary colors!! It’s jam packed with vibrant, stash building tertiary colors. Now you have a chance to build your tertiary color stash in a big way (20 fat quarters-big… that’s 5 yards of fabric!).

To enter the giveaway today, let me know what colors you find yourself using again and again. Leave a comment and make sure I’m able to get ahold of you if you win.  If you’re a follower of Night Quilter, leave a second comment telling me how you follow for a second entry. Tell me how you follow Fat Quarter Shop (facebook, twitter, Instagram, their blog Jolly Jabber, etc.) for a third entry.

This giveaway is open to US and international participants.  The giveaway will be open until Tuesday 5/10 at 8pm EST when I’ll select the winner randomly with random.org. Good luck! This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Delaine!!

Thanks again to the Fat Quarter Shop! Blog sponsors help me to keep this blog going by helping cover the costs of hosting, photography equipment, supplies, and of course time. Sweet, precious time. Many many thanks to all who support me!

385 thoughts on “Color Realizations {& Giveaway!}”

  1. I, too, love the tertiary colors although I didn’t identify them by that name. Just completed a color gravity quilt for a grandson who is marrying. It is a bit modern for my preference, but I love how it turned out. Queen size—my biggest quilt yet!

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  14. I love the Tertiary colors too. I haven’t thought about it much before. But looking at my stash I have tons of dark teals, especially with rich browns. A lot of golden yellows and deep oranges too. One thing about looking at my stash though is I know for sure I like bright, rich colors. You will not find any pale pastels in my fabric piles. 🙂

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  15. I find myself using lots of lime green (chartreuse) and purples in my sewing projects. Not sure I’d call them my signature colors just yet though!

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  18. I love blue and my stash is full of it! Blue makes me happy, and I am happy when my project has blue in it.

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  21. Right now I find myself using a lot of browns. But I change all the time on what is my primary color.

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  27. Change is a constant, especially as we age. Need more light now, so my greyed down county pallette has switched to clear and bright. Love the colors you are talking about! Thanks for a chance to win your favs!

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  28. Like you, I love all rainbows…but in most of my projects I find I always include some purple shades or blues..,

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  32. I tend to use a lot of green. Or green paired with something (green, yellow, orange together or green + purple). I love the idea of doing something using all the tertiary colors, though!

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  41. I make most of my quilts in cool colors, blue-green-purple. But I could use this fat quarter bundle, definitely!

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  44. I love purple, magenta, pink and orange. I also go for teal and aqua a lot. I gravitate towards jewel tones and dark backgrounds. And of course rainbow.

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  49. Green and purple I can’t get enough of! I collect a lot of Aqua and orange but for some reason don’t start many quilts in this color scheme. Thanks for the giveaway!

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