{"id":72705,"date":"2026-10-20T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72705"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:59:21","slug":"color-cards-as-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/color-cards-as-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Cards as Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

After taking a class back in the dark ages from Lorraine Torrence<\/a>, always tell myself to ‘make visual decisions visually’. It is so easy for me to see a fabric in a shop and ‘think’ it will go with my project. Not having the project with me means I can’t know for sure, but I am often confident that my color sense is good and I have the perfect fabric. <\/p>\n

Then I am wrong.<\/p>\n

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My color cards – 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is where color cards come in. I don’t  usually have my color cards with me in shops, so they don’t solve all of my problems. However, they definitely help with online shopping for solids.<\/p>\n

I like to pull out my color cards when thinking about getting a new solid or needing some solids for a project and comparing my fabrics with potential options. It is also a great way to match solids or find the correct name for a solid of which you need more.<\/p>\n

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My open color cards – 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Color cards are also like mini pieces of art. I always want all the fabrics when I open them up.<\/p>\n

The bad part is that color cards do get superseded by new versions as fabric manufacturers add colors. While I was researching, I found that Clothworks has increased the number of colors available in their American Made Brands line, thus requiring a new color card to take advantage of all of the options. The same is true for the AGF Pure Solids. I put these on my wishlist. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Having the color cards available has prevented me from spending more money than I need to and also from selecting the wrong color. They can be on the pricey side, which is why I was pleasantly surprised at the excellent prices on the Michael Miller color cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After taking a class back in the dark ages from Lorraine Torrence, always tell myself to ‘make visual decisions visually’. It is so easy for me to see a fabric in a shop and ‘think’ it will go with my project. Not having the project with me means I can’t know for sure, but I … Continue reading “Color Cards as Tools”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[310,345],"class_list":["post-72705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-color","tag-tools"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72705","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=72705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72711,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72705\/revisions\/72711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}