this video is all about color. Hi guys and welcome to my channel every single
Wednesday I upload a new video all about how to use your sewing machine or simple
sewing tips and tricks so guys I am pulling my artistic vibe today because
we can actually learn from artists as quilters. Another useful tool about how
to understand color is grabbing one of these you can print one off the internet
this one actually came with a like a red Plexiglass and it tells you all about the
tones of the colors like the value of a color and I'll touch on values of colors
a little bit later so let's dive into colors so I just want to share with you
a little story and this is not a bash on the person and it's not a bash on the
fabric store I just want to share the story so I was just browsing around and
there was a lady there and she was wanted to make her quilt so
they'd selected like a main color and she didn't understand how to put other
colors together in order to make her quilt so she was
having the lady help her. Yeah hands up I'll put my hands up first and say I
have been there and done that but I think that if you understand how colors
work and complement each other then you should go to the store and use that as
part of the process that is part of the quilt making process so anyway this lady
basically just handed all of that over to the sales assistant and in order to
get colors that like went with each other because she obviously didn't
understand and there was like no how much do you want to spend or anything
like that it was just like they were just shooting through all these colors and by
by the time she went to the till I think it cost us something like 400 Canadian
dollars which I thought was was quite a lot like because
when you're making a quilt you've got to put in like a budget factor as well
as what you like you really do you have to plan ahead when you're looking into
making a quilt so I really think that if this lady understood how to put colors
together she could have made that all of her choice and all of her own work like
now she has a quilt that basically has been put together by somebody else's
opinion that's my opinion but I think she would have done a better job if she
would have spent some time at the quilt store. Factor going into the quilt store
as part of the process of creating your quilt it's part of the fun like put the
fun into going to the store and grabing and finding fabric don't be ashamed
about being in the store for like an hour or an hour and a half get to know
the sales assistants just get to know people like make it part of that social
community vibe of the quilting process so I'm going to let you into a secret
come here all this information is probably in every single quilt book you
have ever purchased aka the boring section so understanding
color is basically a term called color theory that's the terminology for
it so you have primary secondary and tertiary colors I probably said that
last one wrong sorry pronunciation is terrible I know you feel like your five
again but bear with me okay. We have primary colors yellow blue red so we
have secondary colors which are formed by mixing the primary colors which are
green orange and purple and we have the Tetra colors that are created by mixing
the primary and the second colors together. You are never going to see
white black or grey on the color wheel because they are considered as neutral
colors I consider them to be harsh colors they stand out way too much in a
quilt so I always kind of stay away from them apart from when I'm thread painting
because I like the thread to stand out in my work now you have
your warm colors which are your reds oranges and yellows and you have your
cool colors which are you blues greens and your violets and you can tint them
shades and you can make them like an ombre effect or just make them lighter
or darker. So on this wheel it gives you like color harmonies or like
complementary colors so if you don't know what color complements orange for
example orange is complemented by blue so if you did a blue and an orange quilt
is going to be such a fantastic contrast to look at so that our triad colors so
they go it like in a triangle like the term suggests so if I point it like this
if you were to use a yellow a pink and a blue that would look awesome on your
quilts however you want to make sure that the value of colors are going to be
complimentary for each other because if you use a triad and use like
a pale pink and the pale blue and then a really vibrant yellow the yellow is
going to stand out on your quilt so much more so make sure when you use a triad
that if you don't want one color to physically pop out then make sure it's
in the same value of colors okay so the next one is
the split complementary of colors and it's the
hardest one for you to actually screw up so if you're wanting to create a quilt
base it on split complementary colors and you're going to be very successful so let's
work it from here let me get this angle right so split complementary is this
direction so it would be green blue and red okay I almost forgot to tell you
about the color value what does the color value mean so
let's say for argument's sake you have a load of different shades of red
so the different shades of red are the different values of red so you may have
a light red or you could have a really deep deep red so the value is where you
can select the tone of the color so you'll have the lighter red a medium red
and a darker red so that's the color value and you can still do that using
like different colors in your quilt so if you've got like grays yellows and
reds just an example and you can get the values of all of them different colors
and put your lights your mediums and your darks together in order to create a
more appealing looking quilt and don't forget that colors have meanings to
people like there's a whole meaning behind colors on the internet that you
can search it's so interesting like green is normally about nature and
yellow is always about like sunshine and happy and orange is like confidence have
I given you some food for thought when it comes to colors and creating your
quilts and having much more fun with it and getting away from them pre-made
blocks I've already cut out for you. Let me know in them comments down below and
don't forget enjoy the learning, Get excited about the process and have fun
creating your work thank you so much for watching don't forget to hit the
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