{"id":34841,"date":"2016-11-25T05:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=34841"},"modified":"2016-11-22T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T00:22:31","slug":"colorplay-november-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/colorplay-november-25\/","title":{"rendered":"ColorPlay November 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20160921_121805sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20160921_121805sm-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Postamt Boden\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20160921_121805sm-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20160921_121805sm-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20160921_121805sm.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postamt Boden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I owe you a chapter from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607059606\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1607059606&amp;linkId=1f37671d4d6e8388a9e7704946926a0f\" target=\"_blank\">The Little Spark<\/a> book, but that chapter will not be this week. Thanksgiving kicked my butt and after I post this, I am going to lay on the floor of my workroom and pretend I am sewing.<\/p>\n<p>Once again we are looking at color palettes. This is an endlessly fascinating topic for me.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this floor in the Postamt at <span class=\"thoroughfare\">Neutorgasse 46<\/span> in Graz when I went to mail some postcards home. I love mosaics and tile as you well know and despite the grime and poor repair of this floor, I thought it was a beautiful design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34834\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34834\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"ColorPlay November 25 n.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ColorPlay November 25 n.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I tried to get a pleasing array of the neutrals. Again, lots of neutrals and &#8216;repro&#8217; colors. Another challenge. Lots of chocolate and mocha type colors. The Kona Taupe definitely has a pink cast and the Ash looks silvery. The two of them keep this palette from being too depressing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34833\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-2-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"ColorPlay November 25 n.2\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ColorplayNov25-2.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ColorPlay November 25 n.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I worked hard to keep that taupe in the palette on my second attempt. This second palette is somewhat brighter, especially with the Wheat.<\/p>\n<p>If you make anything from one of the palettes above, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I owe you a chapter from The Little Spark book, but that chapter will not be this week. Thanksgiving kicked my butt and after I post this, I am going to lay on the floor of my workroom and pretend I am sewing. Once again we are looking at color palettes. This is an endlessly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/colorplay-november-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ColorPlay November 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[374],"tags":[310,311,319,325],"class_list":["post-34841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-color","tag-creativity","tag-inspiration","tag-mosaics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}