Find a photograph, magazine layout, or advertisement that has an attractive color scheme. Use those colors to inspire your coloring for a quilt design.
- Barb Vlack
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Barb Vlack
Glass Baskets
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Barb Vlack
Apple Bobbers
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Charlotte Kleiner
Abolone Skein
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Charlotte Kleiner
Abolone Star
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I took a picture of a Chahuli art glass sculpture from the underside
looking up. The bright colors were fabulous! I used the Tulip Basket
block because it could be set it into Baby Blocks layout and multi-colored.
I love the secondary designs!
St. Charles, Illinois USA
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The antique Halloween greeting postcard that inspired this color
scheme doesn't use our familiar Hallowwen colors at all. I found
the Irish Logs block in the EQ6 Block Library and added a few lines
to make it work for this design.
St. Charles, Illinois USA
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I often can find colour inspiration from skeins of needlework and
embroidery threads hanging in my local Needlework shop, Mrs. Twitchette's
Eye. A varigated skein from the Watercolours by Caron collection of
threads was the inspiration skein for the colours used in this hanging/table
runner. (See my inspiration picture in the Sketchbook of an assortment
of threads and beads inspired by this skein of thread.) This skeins'
colour was called Abolone. I designed the block in a bargello style
in order to get the colours to twist to resemble the twists of the
skein of thread.
Winnipeg, MB Canada
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Using the bargello block and the Symmetry tool resulted in a lot of
interesting designs...it was hard to pick just one....here's a favourite.
I used my inspiration picture to choose fabrics from the EQ Fabric
library to match these colours.
Winnipeg, MB Canada
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Quilt 8 |
Carol Baldry
Time, Tide and Ice Storms
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Carol Baldry
Circles and Squares
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Barbara Gilstad
Cactus Flowers
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Birdie Cutair
Butterflies
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I really liked the secondary patterns that this block formed.
Davenport, Iowa
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Ice storms leave interesting patterns in the trees. It doesn't seem
like as much color as there really is.
Davenport, Iowa
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My photo palette is comprised of snippets of green foliage found
in nature and cactus flowers about to bloom.
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Birdie Cutair
Butterflies 2
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Berit Pramm
Blue Flower Quilt
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Berit Pramm
Fan Quilt Play
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Brigitte Heitland
Cobblestones
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I found inspiration to this design in a
Norwegian quilt Magazine.
Norway
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This colors I found in a Norwegian
Quilt Magazine,and I was inspired to make this Fan Quilt Play.
Norway
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A friend of mine took a photo of cobblestones and the soft greys
and earthtones inspired me for this quilt.
More about the way I came from the pic to the quilt you'll find on
this website.
Germany
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Carolyn L
Geology
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Carolyn L
My fabric selections
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Christiane W
Tuscany Sunflowers
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Claudia Chang
Flamenco
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I am both a quilter and a geologist's daughter. For the EQ Challenge,
I chose colours from a photo found on the internet of mineral deposit
rocks at Artist's Palette, Death Valley National Park, California.
I used an adaptation of log cabin block set on point, with plain squares
added. This is a vertical strip layout, with borders made using the
EQ auto-borders tool. It was an interesting challenge, I never would
have added the browns on my own.
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This are the fabrics I used (from Stash) surrounding the image that
the colour scheme is based on. It is of mineral rocks at Artist's
Palette, Death Valley USA. Photo is copyright by terragalleria.com
so I am using it only to pick my colours. See also the notes on the
photo block
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In sketchbook/photos you will find the photo which inspired me.
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The Flamenco poster (in photos sketchbook) that inspired this color
scheme.
Taiwan
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Quilt 20 |
Daphne Stewart
We Remember January
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Daphne Stewart
Six Bells
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Deborah Calyo
Jungle Crossroads
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Deborah Calyo
Scarlet Fever
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The color scheme for this quilt came from a month's painting in a
'Cottages' calendar. I searched for an artist's name but found none;
but the artist wouldn't own the color scheme anyway. Thanks for the
inspiration, though, whoever you were!
I used the layout Horizontal Medallion #26, with Log Cabin and Dresdon
Bladed Flower blocks.
Sunnyside. Washington
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Word to the wise EQ user: if you start a challenge with a layout
from the library, don't delete it from the sketchbook until you record
the number. Once it's filled with blocks and colors, the bare bones
of the layout are hard to see.
I finally determined that I used Special Effects #11, modified (I
replaced the center four on-point squares with a single large one).
The blocks used include Birds in Air, Celtic Patch 3, and Double Tulip.
The color scheme came from a painting of a stormy sea at dawn.
Sunnyside. Washington
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The coloring of this quilt was inspired by the photo of a scarlet
macaw against a soft focus background of green.
For private use only.
Spring Valley, NY
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The coloring of this quilt was inspired by a photo of a scarlet macaw
against a soft focus green background.
For personal use only.
Spring Valley, NY
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D. Katherine Willis
Purple Moss
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Hilde J
Book in Blue
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Hilde J
Blue Harmony
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Hélène Laparra
Bougainvillea
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The inspirational photo for this quilt was part of the USGS / NASA
Landsat Project and features the Great Sandy Desert in Australia.
I was attracted to the unusual color combination of purple, olive,
and teal.
The pieced block was based on one I admired in a quilting magazine.
(See block notecard for data.) The stencil design (Petal Wreath) is
from EQ6's stencil library.
Houston, Texas, USA
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I look in a blogg and there it was. A painting in blue with one book
and a bootle of wine. I love blue color ..........
Norway
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This is more like the painting I see on the blog.
Norway
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This quilt comes from a picture of a purple bougainvillea that I
took last month in Rome. I drew the impossible triangle block from
a former class at QU with Patty Anderson. I rearranged it for this
challenge and thought that it fitted well!
France
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Hélène Laparra
Summer in Biarritz's beach
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Janet Bangs
Stormy Night Sky
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Janet Bangs
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Jean J
Snow's white - isn't it?
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I used a picture that my niece took last Summer in the beach of Biarritz
(South West of France, if you can go and visit the Basque Country!!!).
I used blocks from EQ6. The hexagons represent the tents. Upper gray
is the front wall of the beach, yellow for the sand and blue for the
water.
France
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The photo is of a stormy sky and forms the palette for the colours
of this quilt which is made from the "baby blocks" layout.
Guildford, England
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I pixelated this photo to see how manu shades of blue there are in
it. I found at least 7 and no white. The whole quilt is a cold and
sullen as the day I took the photo. I don't thin I'll be making this
quilt in this colourway.
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Quilt 32 |
Jane Turgeon
Waves on the Sand
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Jane Turgeon
Easter Sunrise
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Judith Best
Star Flower
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Judith Best
Star Flower 2
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Colours are from our shore on Lake Huron. The lake is very low, so
waves of blue run across shoals of sand. Borders and stencils from
the EQ6 libraries.
Looking for an anchor or shell stencil for the corner of the first
border.
Northeastern Ontario
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Mostly Benardin fossil fabrics for colour. This photo was taken from
Scarborough Bluffs just before an Easter Sunrise service, 2004. The
previous year my Mother had recovered from falling from the loft at
her cottage. That she was able to attend, made this very special service
and the sunrise 'rose' to the occasion.
Northeastern Ontario
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As inspiration I used a picture from my garden of briight yellow
sunflowers against a blue sky.
Ontario, Canada
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