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It's been quite a while since I have been able to carve out the time to participate in Color Play Friday (or blogging regularly in general). :-/ I'm happy to have jumped onto this week's event. I love the bold color of the flower and decided to stick with floral as my inspiration, in addition to the color palette I pulled from the photo.

I have to say, that black print that I chose isn't working for me 100%... it's got little blue bits. Hm. The photo on the Hawthorne site showed it a little more pale and the blue bits looked green to me. I'm leaving it in because I *do* like seeing the pale red and gold to complement the first two fabrics.

In other news, why do I still not own any Painters Canvas!?

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

 

Solids:
Kona Paprika
Kona Papaya
Kona Palm
Kona Black
Kona Steel

Prints:
Tile in Brick by Alison Glass, Andover
Specks in Carambola by Frances Newcombe, Art Gallery
Painters Canvas in Bottle by Laura Gunn, Michael Miller
Lush in Black by Lorena Siminovich, Cloud 9
Dandelions in Grey by Dear Stella

 

Check out the other palettes this week at:

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo.

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Today's photo is Lorinda's shot of the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, Washington. You can see more photos and information on the building on the museum website and Wikipedia.

I'm not 100% sold on my choice for the persimmon fabric (third in the picture) due to the light pink background. I was hoping that having the peach background in my last print would help, but i'm not sure. I think the palette might work better with the omission of one or both of those... or perhaps just substituting the Kona solid for the Integrity print. Thanks for visiting!

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

 

Solids:
Kona Paprika
Kona Ruby
Kona Persimmon
Kona Goldfish
Kona Yarrow
Kona Honey

Prints:
Sprout in Jam by Tula Pink, Westminster/Free Spirit
Raindrops in Brick by Elizabeth Hartman, Robert Kaufman
Integrity in Persimmon by Valorie Wells, Robert Kaufman
Little Bits in Honey by Tula Pink, Westminster/Free Spirit
Sharp in Yarrow by Carolyn Friedlander, Robert Kaufman
Ladder Lines in Ice Peach by Carolyn Friedlander, Robert Kaufman

 

Check out the other palettes this week at:

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo.

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Welcome to Color Play Friday. I missed last week when they featured a building in Minneapolis. This week we have this photo of a lovely bowl of Starburst candy. At first glance the photo reads as really PINK, which isn't exactly my favorite color to work with. Taking a closer look, there's actually an amazing number of color options in the reflection on the edge of the bowl. In addition to the pinks and reds from the candy, my initial color palette included a variety of blues and jewel tones in purples, blues, golds, and greens. I also had some grey in there as well.

As I worked through fabric selection I narrowed my palette. The first fabric I locked on was the Fruit Stand. I loved it for the colors as well as the play on the fruit flavors of the Starburst. I wouldn't be surprised if others chose this fabric as well this week! It would have worked in either color way, but I liked that this one brought in the navy color from my palette. And I loved how the Tula Pink Mosaic pulled in all the Starburst colors and worked with the colors in Fruit Stand. From there I moved on to blenders.

It's hard to tell from the thumbnail, but some of the print in the Fruit Stand fabric is in polka dots, which is what drove me to add a polka dot fabric to my palette. And while the Ultra Marine Crosshatch is a little out there and didn't match my green swatch perfectly (trust me, I hunted to find a better matching green in the photo!), I really liked what it added to the overall palette. The Lecien modern text fabrics had a number of possible colors from my original, larger palette and I really wanted to work one in since I love text fabrics.

There are NINE of us participating this week. (Links below.) I can't wait to see what everyone else came up with.

I created my palette with Palette Builder 2.1 by Play Crafts.

Solids:
Kona Nautical
Kona Everglade
Kona Punch
Kona Pomegranate
Kona Rich Red
Kona Snow

Prints:
Fruit Stand in Navy by Melanie Miller, Cotton & Steel
Crosshatch in UltraMarine by Carolyn Friedlander, Robert Kaufman
Painter's Canvas in Lipstick by Laura Gunn, Michael Miller
Text in Pink by Lecien
Mosaic in Magenta by Tula Pink, FreeSpirit Fabric
Le Cr'eme Swiss Dot Navy by Riley Blake Designs

Check out the other palettes this week at:

If you'd like to participate in Color Play Friday you can visit In An Otter Life or Laurel, Poppy and Pine for the rules, their contact information, and next week's photo. Additionally, this month there's an opportunity to purchase Lorinda's bundle or Trina's bundle (or both) at Stash Fabrics. And visit Lorinda and Trina's blogs for a chance to win their bundles!

Thanks for visiting. If you're new here, check out my last three posts, where I'm sharing about the classes I took at QuiltCon and giving away a bundle of my QuiltCon goodies. :-)