I love experimenting with color, don’t you? Although sometimes I feel like I’m stuck in a color rut. A recent post by Stitch11 showing how to make color palettes with Picmonkey got me thinking about using colors I don’t often consider. I tried a little experiment with yarn colors and wanted to share it with you.
I’ve always loved the color palettes at Design Seeds. And Stitch11’s method for creating color palettes has been such fun! I decided to take some of my color palettes and see if I could match up yarn colors using the palettes, keeping in mind that I knew I would not be able to match the color exactly. The palettes were more for inspiration, and the idea was to add colors to a scheme that I might not have thought of.
Here are some I’ve done. It’s interesting, I would have probably never thought to put the gold in the color mix, but the same gold is in both of these collages.
And here is the final result: a crochet square I made using the Harlequin Shells pattern in the iris collage color palette. I think I needed a green that was more olive-toned, but overall I am pleased with it.
This is very interesting. I always have a hard time choosing colours for multicoloured projects. I should really try this method.
Thanks Matilda! I look forward to trying color schemes from other photographs.
I would’ve never thought to combine those colors in, like a Granny Square, but they are beautiful. After my project is done or if I decide to take a break from it, I’m going to try that combo or the other color combo. Thank you for the beautiful idea(s) 🙂 Karen Y~
Thanks Karen! I tried the other combo and wish I’d had a yellow in my stash that was a more of a pale yellow-green. The pale yellow in that combination wasn’t so great, I thought. Glad you are enjoying this!
Oh wow!! Thanks so much for showing the results of using the colors. Beautiful!!!!!
Thanks so much for stopping in, Corina! Love love love the color palette method you showed.
I love the way the square came out!! Very pretty!!
Thanks very much, Yvonne! I hope you will give it a try.
I came up to you from your “Gourmet Crochet”-Blog and I’d like to say thank you. There I’ve found some good Ideas to join my Granny Squares which are so simple and so nice! And now I found this Blog full of colour and ideas! Where to start? Don’t know yet. Thank you for that ^^
Have a nice day!
Thank you for stopping in LadyD! Glad you enjoyed the joining methods tutorial.
This is really great! I love to come up with unique color combos, but sometimes fall flat on my face with my choices. This is really encouraging . Thank you so much.
Kathy
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Love the colour combinations. I agree about the green, although in the colour palette it looks like it will work really well.
I hate it when I think a colour will work and then it doesn’t come out as I’d hoped once I’ve actually used it.