I have always been attracted to bright colours and bold prints and I really wanted to come up with a colour palette that I adored. For this, I started with some interesting inspiration: Miss Friday's giant box of crayons. Immediately, I reached for the periwinkle one and remembered that in my crayon box, periwinkle was always worn to a nub! Feeling inspired, I chose red, magenta, carnation pink, olive green, cornflower, indigo, wisteria, and purple as they all really spoke to me.
Putting them all together, as well as keeping in mind the colours I like to wear seasonally, I made my own personal colour palette. This has been an incredibly helpful tool! I refer to it every time I make a fabric purchase, resulting in a stash full of fabrics that I not only love, but also compliment each other. I rarely make something that I don't feel good in anymore and closet orphans are a thing of the past. Wadders, however, still do rear their ugly heads from time to time.
For my Hazel dress, I chose a punchy floral print from Sandi Henderson's Meadowsweet 2 collection. As you can see, fits into my personal palette perfectly; even adding yellows, which I love to wear in summer. It's shown here with some pretty turquoise twill.
Creating your own personal colour palette is something I highly recommend doing. Start with your own closet and focus on the pieces that you love and feel fabulous wearing. After that, inspiration will follow!
Feel free to post your palette questions here or in the Flickr group!
7 comments:
I'm so pleased to have found your blog thru Erin's :) This post is fantastic! I too am guilty of fabric purchases that are lovely but don't go with anything in my closet. I'm getting a better sense of which colors I wear most often, but I can see the benefit of creating a palette to stick to.
Ooh, I love this print! It's going to be so pretty as a Hazel dress!!
I LOVE that your personal style is "Audrey Hepburn with a dollop of Pippi Longstocking." So cool!!!!!
P.S. I ordered that Sew Iconic book on Amazon. I'll let you know how it is.
Thats a great idea, I need to do this, I'm very drawn to prints esp florals but then I find they don't go with anything else. Thats one of the reason I'm focussing on dresses this year as thats head to toe one fabric and can't clash with anything. As a fallback I'm always drawn to the pink espcially a fushia pink but I need to look at what goes with this....
Oh, I need to do this- seems like both fun and useful! :)
Nice post! I also developed a personal palette earlier this year -- so helpful! It really helped me hone in on what colors I really liked to wear and helped me pare down my fabric stash and fabric purchases.
I LOVE your personal color palette! The colors you chose are so lovely, and your idea of using crayons to inspire your choices is brilliant! Your print is going to be such a lovely Hazel dress - I'm so excited to see the final version :)
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