Are you familiar with Pantone?  Each year they pick a colour that is to be the signature colour for that year.   This is the colour for 2014.

Just for fun I took my quilt and uploaded it into Chip It!, the website that turns any picture into a palette and gives you 'chips' of all the colours in your quilt, to see if I had any orchid.  I am close with the purple I have on the left of the quilt.

This is really helpful if you have a print fabric and want to pull out the colours in it to correspond.  Sometimes it is hard to see what is in there.   Or the same with a photograph.  You just upload the picture and it pulls out the colours for you.

The quilt above just got accepted into the AQS Lancaster show=)   Go and have a try with Chip It!, bet you can't stop with one picture=)

Chips Off The Old Block and Fun Stuff

Over the holidays I had my two little munchkins with me and at one point they were really watching me work on some 3D embellishments.   I offered to them to each make a little art quilt of their own with the theme of 'Your Favourite Food'.

This is where I start to grin, knowing that they are just like their mother.   Without any prompting from me, they didn't just use fabric, but foam and paper and markers.

I just had to show you this piece of fabric I received from Japan!  Yep, a member of my family went to Japan and brought this back for me!  I do love my family=)  What would you do with this, it is a 16" square?

I linked up my WIP over here today.

Are you familiar with Pantone?  They are the trendsetters for colours each year.   People wait religiously to their colour choices.   For 2013 they have chosen Emerald.  I went to my favourite colour site TinEye Labs and plugged in Emerald.    If you have never gone to this site, you simply must.  It is a few easy steps and you have the colour palette of your every whim!

Now with a little pink thrown in, pink does look good everywhere!

What do you think?   Will you use Emerald this year in your quilts?