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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. It’s difficult to say which colours I use most… Blues, purples, and reds are the top three.

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  15. I’m a big fan of a rainbow palette too and I also find myself using a lot of white and navy too. Thanks for the chance to win this gorgeous bundle!

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  23. I follow your blog via mine, not sure of the mechanics (I’m a dyed in the wool luddite). Thanks for the giveaway. tania.hodges at gmail.com

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  24. As for favourite colours, after reading your description, I must say I prefer the tertiary colours as well. I started off using saturated primary colours, but didn’t keep the quilts, they were just too bright and discordant. My latest quilts use mustard yellows, teals, and rust red-browns. Thanks for the giveaway. tania.hodges at gmail.com

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  26. Right now, the color I most gravitate toward is teal. And all of my recent fabric purchases reflect it! I really like the color wheel graphic that you used to show the tertiary colors. I need to post something like this in my sewing room to remind me of color theory at a glance.

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  30. I’m with you on the tertiary colors; I wonder if it’s a modern quilter thing to refrain from the typical red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and orange. I prefer chartreuse, orchid, coral,teal, turquoise, navy and bright white.

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  42. for years my go -to colors were blues, teals and purples. Lately I am getting more comfortable with coral, turquoise, deep blue and gold. sounds strange I know, but it works.

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  43. I’m a definite fan of rainbow … I even find myself using it in a pastel form when making quilts for children! Thanks for the fun giveaway 🙂

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  49. I have three colour ways I seem to use repeatedly. Purples of all shades with either turquoise or pink. Taupes/grey with turquoise and lastly one colour with white. I’ve just finished a pink and white quilt.

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  50. Blues and grey are my go to colours. This looks like a lovely vibrant bundle x
    Iain.ross30 at gmail dot com

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