Using Colors in Your Crafts

We all have favorite colors, often based on the colors that look good on us, appeal to us when decorating our home, office or studio, or simply are ones that make us feel good when working with them.  I discovered, when I made quilts for sale, that I had to work with colors that weren’t my favorites.

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Often customers would select colors for the items they commissioned that were ones I wouldn’t consider for my own use, but they looked lovely when coordinated in a picec of fabric art.  When I made items to sell on consignment or to sell to shops, I had to consider that not everyone had the same color taste that I did.

After I took a class in color coding, or color analysis, and discovered why specific colors appealed to some people and others didn’t, why some colors looked good on some people and other colors didn’t, I understood much more about the effect of color in one’s wardrobe and in crafts.

So if you’re involved in crafts in which color is important, learn more about color, not just how colors are made and change in light and dark, but why one color looks good and appeals to one person, but another color doesn’t.  This knowledge also will help you in working with colors you may not particularly like, but someone else simply loves.