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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. My current favorite color is navy and I love pairing it with aqua or mint, but I think it’s such a great color for so many combinations. Magenta, gold, everything looks good with navy!

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  12. I really do try to mix things up with color and experiment with different color combos. So I’m not sure I have a set palette that I’m drawn to. Recently, I’ve been trying to read up on different color families/schemes. Interesting stuff.

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  21. I’m surprising myself with my new love of teals & violets. It’s such a bright & cheerful yet sophisticated combination.

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  25. I love the blues! And anything ombré, or rainbow…so hard to choose! I am trying a sampler in the “sea glass” palette now, which has a lot of tertiary colors. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  28. I tend to lean towards cooler colors, but have found that I really go through phases, where I love a certain color and then I don’t.

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  29. I do love a good rainbow, but I feel like I see everything in a blue and yellow combination before I see it any other way. Lol. Something about it just feels right. 😊 Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

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  34. Hi love the bundle. I love Christmas fabrics so it would be great to build up my stash.
    I follow you on Instagram, Twitter and email.
    I follow Fat Quarter on both Instagram and Twitter.

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  35. I tend to gravitate to autumn/fall colors, rusts, maroons, oranges, darker shades of olive and green. Especially now that I live in an area that has one season…green… I miss the changing of the leaves and the beautifully painted trees that nature provides in the US Midwest.

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  36. I seem to incorporate orange in almost everything I do. Turquoise is another of my go-to colors

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  41. I always gravitate to orange, yellow and gray. There’s a point at which you don’t need more orange right?

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  44. This is so exciting! Thank you so much for a chance to win. I find myself coming back to blue every time again. Now that I think of it, I think I usually start building my quilts around a three-color palette, with all colors in the palette changing per quilt, except for blue. Blue is here to stay! I tend to miss blue in my fabric pulls if it’s not there, while I do not feel so strongly towards other colors. I guess I just love blue, whatever shade :). Actually, I might have to consciously forgo that ‘bias’ in a future quilt. I see a lot of quilts without or with little blue by others and I love those, so making one myself might actually pleasantly surprise me!

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