Building colour confidence

Time and time again I hear people say that they don’t feel confident working with colour. Whether it is choosing colours for a crochet blanket or sorting fabrics for their next patchwork project. So I have designed this workshop to give an insight into the ‘rules’ of working with colour and to give plenty of chance to experiment and play with colour combinations – with minimal investment and with maximum return.

We’ll start the workshop learning all about the basics of colour. We’ll cover;

Primary and secondary colours

The difference between tints, tones and shades

How to identify warm and cool colours

Colour choices; achromatic, monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic

Identifying colours from plain and patterned fabrics

Identifying and working with blenders and accents

Using colour tools

Once we have understood all about colour we will work on a series of exercises, using fabric as our medium, to develop our understanding from part 1 of the day. Note there will be no sewing and you do not need to bring any materials to the class. We will explore colour combinations, understand how we personally feel about them and make a record of our own interpretations of success and failure.

Finally we will look at colour inspirations and techniques for choosing colours for new projects,

The content that we cover, whilst orientated towards a patchworker, is transferable so please don’t feel that you need to be a patchworker to get a LOT from this workshop.