{"id":46994,"date":"2019-08-14T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46994"},"modified":"2019-08-13T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:43:46","slug":"the-problem-with-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-problem-with-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46995\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46995\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bolts of Grey\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_150233-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolts of Grey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I went to The Granary the other day and Friend Julie pointed out a row of greys. She called it the &#8220;problem with greys.&#8221; I thought the photo explained the &#8216;problem&#8217; beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>The colors in the photo look different from when I saw them with my eyes, but it doesn&#8217;t matter, because you, dear Reader, can still see the difference.<\/p>\n<p>None of the colors would be called anything but grey. The bolt on the far right looks black but was a charcoal (you&#8217;ll have to trust me). The shelf sports a wide variety.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46998\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Background detail - Flying Around\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190813_173417_wm-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Background detail &#8211; Flying Around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I like using a variety of greys as background on my quilts and it is a happy chore to find the right ones. You can see the variety in Flying Around. Mostly I like to use greys that are very close in tone to each other so there is no grey that obviously stands out. Also, I don&#8217;t like the taupe based greys. I am sure I have said that before.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo of the Flying Around background, I have more variety. It might be because I want the eye to move around the background as well as the foreground or it might be laziness. Not sure or not admitting to anything. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of why my rule of &#8216;make visual decisions visually&#8217; is so important. It is impossible to match any color, perhaps particularly greys, without putting the bolts or pieces next to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to The Granary the other day and Friend Julie pointed out a row of greys. She called it the &#8220;problem with greys.&#8221; I thought the photo explained the &#8216;problem&#8217; beautifully. The colors in the photo look different from when I saw them with my eyes, but it doesn&#8217;t matter, because you, dear Reader, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-problem-with-grey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Problem with Grey&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[310,315],"class_list":["post-46994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-color","tag-fabric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994","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=46994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}