Color Your World

For insight on your color preferences think about the color you associate with the following:

1.     Your favorite fabric

2.     Geometric fabric

3.     Focus fabric

4.     Going to bed

5.     Polishing your nails

6.     Novelty fabric

7.     Picking field flowers

8.     A bouquet of your flowers

9.     Your favorite quilt, one you made

10. Coloring your hair

11. Setting the table

12. Putting up the patio umbrella

13. Floral fabric

14. Placing a wreath on your door

15. Daydreaming

16. Ethnic fabric

17. Arranging a bowl of fruit

18. The color of the cover of your favorite quilt book

19. Abstract fabric

20. Solid fabric

 Scoring

Designate each of your color choices according to three basic categories of association—warm, cool and neutral. First, find your colors in the following category list:

Warm Colors: red, orange, pink, yellow

Cool Colors: blue, green, purple

Neutral Colors: black, brown, white, gray, beige, taupe

Next assign an “A” whenever you have listed a warm color, a “B” for all you cool color choices, and a “C” for neutral colors. Count how many you listed in each category.

Use the information below to see what your choices may say about you and your quiltmaking.

Your tally:     warm ____________ cool ____________ neutral ____________

How do you compare?

Mostly “A”s? You come alive with energizing colors.

Mostly “B”s? You respond to soothing colors.

Mostly “C”s? You like to play it safe.

Tie with two or all categories? Evenly distribute color ‘temperatures’ throughout your stash.