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January 10, 2008
Let's Try This...
Ok here is one. It's not quite right (reds aren't saturated the way I want), but it's a start.
Also, aren't there any takers on the needles??
Posted by loyd0008 at January 10, 2008 8:27 PM
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Oooh. Oooh! Me! Pick Me! Can you tell I was the kid who'd jump around waving her arm in the air? :^)
I love those colors, the contrast is really nice. I'm glad you posted them; I couldn't see them yesterday for some reason.
Posted by: Kyle at January 11, 2008 8:19 AM
Hi Kyle! It looks like Kara posted a little bit before you, but if you email me your address I'm sure I can find a little something to send...
:)
oh yeah: principia (at) gmail (dot) com
Posted by: villain at January 11, 2008 8:25 AM
I like your color scheme. I think it'll turn out really pretty! Do you think you are going to try to make your dress?
Posted by: Jackie at January 11, 2008 9:55 AM
I took your BBW shirt-making class & found your blog via seeking out other BBW patterns & viola! My teacher.
Your talk of weddings has me offering my two cents as I was recently married about 6 months ago.
We didn't have any wedding "colors" per se. My dress was tiffany blue and I only had one "bridesmaid" who wore a vintage bright green dress that she already owned. I went with a blue dress b/c the color looked fantastic on me whereas white dresses looked like shit. I ended up buying a dress at flutter boutique in minneapolis & it's technically a bridesmaid dress but it was the only one simple enough for my tastes. Anyway, so we skipped over a lot of the traditional wedding stuff & just went with what we wanted. If you want to pick colors as a guide, I would narrow it down to two or three & just use those as accent points - like for napkins or your primary flower (should you have a bouquet). If you go with a colored dress, then maybe you repeat that color in small ways elsewhere. The other thought I have, purely based on my own experience, is that I would pick out a couple of things that are really important to you to keep. For me that came down to using live plants (specifically beach grasses) as a centerpiece and the blue dress. That's it. Everything else was totally negotiable in my opinion, although I should add that I am completely in the "less is more" camp. So with the grasses and the dress we started with a palette of blues & greens & just went from there. Nothing was matchy and it felt really personal and thus more like a great party where we happened to get married first and less like a wedding. I can show you pics if you want.
Other than that, I think the palette you have is fantastic & a really easy one to work within. I guess it mostly depends on what you want to use the colors for.
Posted by: Kelsey at January 11, 2008 1:24 PM
Oh I like this color scheme... For our wedding we just used 1 color mostly & it was actually really close to the color of the far right (the burgundy red color).
Posted by: Chara Michele at January 15, 2008 11:03 AM