Hello everyone!

Sally O just posted, in the Daily Weaverliness group, photos of a Color Challenge that her guild just completed (comment #48). In the brief discussions thus far it has come up that we might do a similar challenge here on Weavolution. There are some options of handing out the "inspiration" colors virutally. However I am willing to consider maling out envelopes or handing out envelopes to those goign to Convergence. I am currently thinking starting this in August would be a good idea. Please let me know if this is of interest to you.

 Photo by Sally Orgren

Comments

Nakia

Ok, I will give this a go and see what color I don't like comes my way. LOL Since we have a whole yr to work on it I should be able to complete it.

 

I will pm you Erica letting you know I want in on the challenge. Laughing

 

De'Andrea~~

Jean M Peterson (not verified)

This would be a good challenge for me.  I am not going to Convergence.  Please send my colors.  Thanks.

theresasc

I am drawing a line in the sand!  I will not venture into dyeing.  I keep telling myself that, it is almost like a mantra when I see what people have done dyeing their own yarns:-)

I seem to be neglecting my floor looms completely.  I keep playing with my tapestry loom, and now the inkle and my marudai.  I really just do not have enough time in the day to spread over all my toys.  Between yesterday and today I have finished a new braid, got to the half way point on my tapestry, and started a new inkle pick-up band.  And now, you are teasing me about dyeing! 

10ashus

Thank you, everyone. Good advice on yarns. With a small space and small budget,  quality is the best purchase. Weaving will teach me patience.

LBKeeling (not verified)

I'll jump in too!  Please send me a color card.

Thanks!

glynruppemelnyk

my colors are challenging too (pinks!), and will certainly take me outside my comfort range.  At the moment I am thinking of starting with variegated tencel in a plaid, but I also found a wonderful 8 shaft fancy twill the other day.  Such possibilities.

glynruppemelnyk

I've used it, but didn't much care for the result.  I think its,beer for knitting or crochet. The hand was stuff and the feels somewhat dry.

Glyn

glynruppemelnyk

I've used it, but didn't much care for the result.  I think its,beer for knitting or crochet. The hand was stuff and the feels somewhat dry.

Glyn

glynruppemelnyk

We're fortunate to have space for a small studio in our loft, so I took the backs off bookcases and arranged the cones to be visible downstairs.  We get lots of compliments on our decor! 

 

 

vbop1 (not verified)

Wish I had read this before convergence. I am interested in participating in this challenge and look forward to seeing the colors. 

Queezle

If you are struggling to find yarn that matches, and hate holding a card up to your computer monitor (adding the complication of indoor lighting to the color rendering of a monitor), I think I've found something good!

Here is a link to the colors of paint from Clark + Kensington, which I think was the source of our color chip assignments.  For example, someone has the wonderfully named Eye Candy color, which can be seen here

Susan - that class on color looks great! Starts October 17th, friends.  See you in class!

SusanBH

Aha!  Based on this site (very fun to look at, Queezle) the 3rd pink color must be Elegant Peonies.  I feel like a puzzle has been solved.

My colors are in the green section, but on my computer screen show up as beige:  Happy Home, Heads or Tails, and Cabanas (third row down on the left).  They really do have green in them, though.

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Thank you Queezle--the site is terrific.  I like being able to see a larger swatch and understand the colors better through the relationships between the colors as organized.  On the monitor I am sitting out now, the colors match the card--and both are in the same ambient light.  It is more helpful to how I am thinking about it than my DH's color standardization and color matching tools.

The class Susan found looks very interesting--count me in too!

 

Queezle

I spent an hour or so last night holding my card up to my computer monitor.  First I sat in my living room (with high CRI LED lighting), and went through a couple company's yarn colors, and selected a few as probably good matches.  Then I moved to bed, and using my table lamp (with a cheap CFL bulb), those same good matches looked not-so-good.  And so I selected a few more matches.

That led me to try to find the on-line colors, figuring that it would remove two variables: how well my monitor renders colors, and the lighting in the room, and its effect on color.  That is, both the paint company and the yarn companies have worked hard to display the most accurate colors possible.  Even if my monitor renders them in a slightly skewed way, it should skew each one the same.  Or at least that is the theory.

Since using these on-line colors, and doing the matching on line, I've found good matches to 8/2 cotton for two of my colors, and might, at least initially, just go with those, though I'm also contemplating carpet warp for my top-secret silly warm-up project.  ;-)

edited to add: I use screen capture to grab a sample of the paint color, put it into a spread sheet, and then do the same with the yarn colors.  Yea, its ok, call me anal, where did you think the word analysis came from?

10ashus

I looked up my sage greens on the link Queezle referenced. The actual paint chip card is more green.  The paint chip on screen looked more like grays with a tiny, teensy, itsy, bit of tint in green. So when shopping online for threads or yarn, I should look for colors with images that look more like this gray?

Sage green paint chip color on monitor looks gray

 

Queezle

That is my guess.  I am going to try to order a few that look like good matches on my monitor (but maybe not when comparing my paper card to a monitor).  I think you've already been quite successful matching your colors, so probably this might not be so useful?

edited to add:  I am finally home, and can see that the colors from the paint supplier do not actually match my swatch very well.  The lightest color is much more yellow looking (at my bedside lamp) than the color from the paint web site, and the darkest color is less orange and almost pink at the website.  Now I'm not sure which to believe, which prob means I should just order something and see how it looks irl.

glynruppemelnyk

The link is fantastic!  Yes, it's elegant oeonies, and the colors (when printed out on high gloss photo paper) match he colors o the screen.  Now, to find yarns...anyone know a source for variegated pinks in Tencel, bamboo or such in an 8/2 or 5/2?  

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Managed to get by Webs with the card in my hand.  If you are looking at the only line version, they are called hugs and kisses, smile, and how sweet it is. Most of the weaving yarns offered only one of the colors.  So, I went around the shop with the card.  I almost chose a varigated that had 2 and almost the third color but settled on the best matching gradient package of 2 ply merino wool.  The clerk thought it would be equivalent to 5/2 cotton but without putting it under warp tension, perhaps closer to 3/2 cotton. It should work well for weft faced weaving over seine twine warp.  It saves me $$ and effort to locate Paternayan wool that may not yet be available in a close enough color range.  

I then did something most outrageous.  I stopped by New England Felting Supply's new location (very airy and bright converted factory).  I found perfectly coordinating space dyed pencil roving.  It has one color absolutely matched and extends the dark range of the merino yarn.

I have been studying Nancy Hoskins Weft Faced Weaves: Tabby to Taquete in advance of diving in to weave my way through the book.  The DVD companion arrived this week and really helped me to understand the polychrome drafting concept.  The DVD includes directions for projects that will also inform what I do for the color challenge.  So, while I am more interested in creating samplers with systematic a presentation plan, I would like to create a finished product for the color challenge.  Hopefully, weaving through the samplers will inspire the ultimate design.

I think this is good progress for 1/12th of the year, especially for an experienced procrastinator.

Francine

Queezle

Nice going, Francine.  It must be such a luxury to take the color card into a huge yarn store, and then the felt place sounds extra special.  You should know you are also a procrastination enabler, as I spent more time than I'd like to admit poring over the on-line component of that felt store.

I have been consoling myself over not yet finding the right yarn by measuring out a warp for more dish towels.  You'd think I actually liked to clean by the way I accumulate these things, though if I really like the pattern I might make instead make myself a table runner.  I'm about 2/3 the way through measuring out the warp. 

glynruppemelnyk


scarves for parent's weekends

 

 I live on the cumberland plateau hours from any decent yarn source.  I do have a color sample notebook fo Valley Yarns.  But, Nothing even close to my colors (rose garden, eye candy an elegant peonies.  So I have ordered the Halcyon yarn store in a box.   Maybe that will help.   Does anyone else have these colors?   And if you do, can you suggest sources?  In the meantine, I am weaving purple and white huck lace cross pattern scarves for our booth at parents weekend in October.  The university is owned by the Episcopal Church and he campus features a very large memorial  cross that presides over the valley below our plateau.  Sorry the picture is sideways. I can't even figure out how to get my profile picture right side up!

Queezle

Lovely huck.  Its been a long time since I've woven huck; thanks for reminding me of its nice weave structure.  What University?  There are several of us academic here on weavo.

I, too, have had issues with sideways photos.  Sometimes it helps to open it up and save it in photoshop, but not always.  We will hope that the update, when it comes, fixes many things - including image upload.

glynruppemelnyk

It's Sewanee, the University of the South,  I Sewanee, Tn.  I graduated from the School of Theology there in 1992, and when I retired from parish ministry, we moved back.

10ashus

taupe and woodrose yarns

It is still steamy hot summer. I saw a Fall clothing outfit today with the grayed greens + brownish rose + taupe/khaki. Appealed to me so much that I spent this month's allowance on those colors of yarn. 

When my back orders and this new order arrive, my living room will look like a Kool-Ade dunking party for sheep. There will be wool flying everywhere as I try to catch up with all the ideas I have had lately.

Glyn, the color and design of your fabric is lovely.

 

10ashus

taupe and woodrose yarns

It is still steamy hot summer. I saw a Fall clothing outfit today with the grayed greens + brownish rose + taupe/khaki. Appealed to me so much that I spent this month's allowance on those colors of yarn. 

When my back orders and this new order arrive, my living room will look like a Kool-Ade dunking party for sheep. There will be fibers flying everywhere as I try to catch up with all the ideas I have had lately.

Glyn, the color and design of your fabric is lovely.

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Update: Drats and dragons. My plans are thwarted again. It was a clearance yarn and sold out. 

glynruppemelnyk

Thank you!  And I love the colors in your winter palette.  When I finish this warp, I am going to start on some runners in Christmas Colors for the craft fair next month.  Then, just for me, I'm going to tackle lace placemats for my formal china.  It's Wedgewood Florentine in dark blue and cobalt. Any suggestions, for colors or weaves?  GlynDinner Plate

glynruppemelnyk

Woo-Hoo!!  My friend Carolyn saw my paint chips at a meeting this morning.  She went home and went shopping in her knitting stash, and just brought me the coolest matches for my project. (Im thinking fabric for a spring jacket.)Yarns for color challenge

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Addition of multicolor yarn and interchange between individuals are terrific. Gives my ideaphoria inspiration for a future chain letter type challenge that would be fun for small land-based group. 

Queezle

@glynruppemelnyk,

Your china is so beautiful, so elegant, that my first thought is that you might be happiest with something that quietly complements, and is content to sit in the background.  I might go for a light neutral, something like a natural linen, and perhaps use a weave structure like one of the lace weaves.  I guess I would also consider the table and the surrounding environment to get something that coordinates with the room's vibe.  But given we are just considering your beautiful plates, maybe something like this, which I borrowed from this web site:

Image result for bronson lace

glynruppemelnyk

Ooh, that's lovely Queezle.  I'll look I up.  Also leaning toward natural fibers and shades, though I'm really tempted to add a narrow stripe of blue near the edges.  Thanks! 

vbop1 (not verified)

I would love to take part in this challenge. Is it sti possible to get a color card?

vbop1 (not verified)

I would love to take part in this challenge. Is it sti possible to get a color card?

Erica J

Yes the challenge is still open! Please PM or e-mail me your mailing address and I will get a color card out to you as soon as possible!

I think my color card is actually the same colors I had already picked out for my color study. So I should have teh yarns. I think I will start as I did with my last color study, with 2" stripes of each color, sample these with many different wefts and then rethread the colors into more interesting stripes. :)

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