{"id":315,"date":"2019-10-12T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:21:15","slug":"color-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Color Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-314\" src=\"http:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6139-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Color\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6139-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6139-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6139-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playing With Color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Try this fun color game.<\/p>\n<p>It will help train your eye to see all the color variations, and the endless combinations you can use in a quilt.<\/p>\n<p>Pick any photo that catches your eye.<\/p>\n<p>Then, working with your stash or scrap bin, cut 2 inch squares from all the fabrics you find that match bits in your photo.<\/p>\n<p>Look for dark, medium and light shades, tints, hues, tones and multi color fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>Then arrange in gradations as shown in this photo, and glue in place. Now you have a tool to help you select fabrics for your next project.<\/p>\n<p>Make more than one. Try a pastel photo, or a photo you don&#8217;t like, stretch your color palette a bit.<\/p>\n<p>This is fun to do with groups at guild meetings and retreats.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do workshops on the fun color game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this fun color game. It will help train your eye to see all the color variations, and the endless combinations you can use in a quilt. Pick any photo that catches your eye. Then, working with your stash or scrap bin, cut 2 inch squares from all the fabrics you find that match bits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color Play<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color-play","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurassagecountryquilts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}