First thing’s first with Alyssa’s BOM, I need to pick a palette and pull some fabric. Here, I am torn. I would like to work with fabrics that I currently have in my stash, BUT I think I would also like to work with a palette that I’m not normally drawn to. It would stand to reason that colors I am not normally drawn to would not be in my stash. Huh.
I was feeling pretty stumped about this, so I headed over to Design Seeds palette search and started scrolling through the seemingly endless ways of putting colors together. In the end, I limited myself to the fowl category, thinking I would chose a peacock feather to work from.
I like this, but there’s less variation in the color than I expected. Alyssa suggested a palette of 4-5 colors with varying values. I do have a lot of blue fabrics in my stash, but I’m not sure I have enough hue variation to account for 4-5 colors.
Next, I found this palette which is very, very different from my usual:
But I wonder if it isn’t too different? My stash is pretty big, but if I don’t have enough of these colors, (my biggest worry is the coral colors) I won’t be able to do it from my stash, which is the ultimate goal. Still, I really like this set of colors and it includes the neutral, natural color that I thought would be the perfect background.
Moving on, I found this one:
…which just might well be perfect. I could use grey as the background and build out the blues and purples and greens pretty easily.
I really should have just stuck with the one above, but I kept going (you try stopping at just one palette! That Design Seeds site is addictive!) and found this:
…and I love it too. It follows all of the the ‘rules’ I set for myself, colors I don’t normally work with, but that can be found in my stash. And there is plenty of color and variation to work with.
So I guess now the only solution is to start pulling fabrics and see how the piles measure up, eh?
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