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    Creative Fabric Selection Worksheet

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    The document provides information about selecting fabric colors and patterns for sewing projects. It includes: 1) A description of the traditional color wheel with primary, secondary, tertiary and warm/cool colors. It also describes common color schemes like analogous, complementary, split complementary, and triadic. 2) Tips for choosing fabrics based on color, pattern, value, scale and balance. It suggests focusing on tone-on-tone, color+white or multi-colored fabrics. 3) Suggestions for inspiration sources like photographs, surroundings, collections, fabric stores, and color palette websites and blogs. It emphasizes considering pattern, values, and details when selecting fabrics.

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    The document provides information about selecting fabric colors and patterns for sewing projects. It includes: 1) A description of the traditional color wheel with primary, secondary, tertiary and warm/cool colors. It also describes common color schemes like analogous, complementary, split complementary, and triadic. 2) Tips for choosing fabrics based on color, pattern, value, scale and balance. It suggests focusing on tone-on-tone, color+white or multi-colored fabrics. 3) Suggestions for inspiration sources like photographs, surroundings, collections, fabric stores, and color palette websites and blogs. It emphasizes considering pattern, values, and details when selecting fabrics.

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    The document provides information about selecting fabric colors and patterns for sewing projects. It includes: 1) A description of the traditional color wheel with primary, secondary, tertiary and warm/cool colors. It also describes common color schemes like analogous, complementary, split complementary, and triadic. 2) Tips for choosing fabrics based on color, pattern, value, scale and balance. It suggests focusing on tone-on-tone, color+white or multi-colored fabrics. 3) Suggestions for inspiration sources like photographs, surroundings, collections, fabric stores, and color palette websites and blogs. It emphasizes considering pattern, values, and details when selecting fabrics.

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    Creative Fabric Selection Worksheet

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    The document provides information about selecting fabric colors and patterns for sewing projects. It includes: 1) A description of the traditional color wheel with primary, secondary, tertiary and warm/cool colors. It also describes common color schemes like analogous, complementary, split complementary, and triadic. 2) Tips for choosing fabrics based on color, pattern, value, scale and balance. It suggests focusing on tone-on-tone, color+white or multi-colored fabrics. 3) Suggestions for inspiration sources like photographs, surroundings, collections, fabric stores, and color palette websites and blogs. It emphasizes considering pattern, values, and details when selecting fabrics.

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    Creative Fabric Selection: Cheat Sheet

    with Jeni Baker of In Color Order @ The Sewing Summit


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    12 colors in the traditional color wheel - 3 primary colors (red, blue, yellow) - 3 secondary colors (purple, green, orange - 6 tertiary colors (red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange) Warm & Cool colors - Half warm colors (red-purple, red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow) - Half cool colors (yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple) Analogous Color Scheme - 3 or more colors that are all next to each other on the color wheel (ex: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow) Harmonizing Color Scheme - 2 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel (ex: green & bluegreen) Complementary Color Scheme - 2 colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel (ex: red-purple & yellow-green) Split Complementary Color Scheme - 3 colors, first color and the two colors directly next to its complement (ex: blue, yellow-orange, red-orange)

    Triadic Color Scheme - 3 colors equidistant from each other on the color wheel (ex: red, blue, yellow)

    Fabric
    Color - Tone on Tone fabrics (1) - Color + White fabrics (2) - Muli-colored fabrics (3) make great focus fabrics --> Accents - Small Accents (4) - Large Accents (5) Scale (6) Pattern - Geometric (7) - Organic (8) Value/Saturation (9) Basics - Dots (10) - Stripes (11) - Solids (12) - Solid-alternatives (13) *Pay attention to all these details when choosing your fabrics! Try to find balance in pattern, value, scale, color, etc. *Keep your eyes open for great basics and alternative basics!

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    Inspiration

    <-- is everywhere!

    Photographs - Your own - Flickr - Blogs, Pinterest - Wedding & Decor blogs - Magazines, books (sewing & non-sewing related!) Surroundings - Your life - Your closet - Environment - Collections - Shopping Fabric Color Palette Tools - Kuler - http://kuler.adobe.com/ - Color Palette Generator - http://www.degraeve.com/colorpalette/ Color Palette Sites - Design Seeds - http://www.design-seeds.com/ - Color Collective - http://color-collective.blogspot.com/ - Creature Comforts - http://www.creaturecomfortsblog. com/home/category/inspiration-daily - The Craft Begins - http://thecraftbegins.com/wordpress/ content/inspiration-boards/ - Photo Card Boutique - http://www.photocardboutique. com/blog/category/color-inspiration/ Dont forget, when in doubt.. - Walk away - Take a photo - Add a neutral or solid, give the eye a place to rest - Consider the pattern - Its all in the details - Check the values - No rules, no wrong!

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