My Autumn Colour Palettes

 Image sources: 1. Some of my fabrics, 2. Me-made 'Angels Culottes', 3. Ness 'meadow' tartan, 4. pink meadow colour palette--my own creation.

I absolutely love the colour palette challenges that Colette patterns hosts every season!

I used the colourlovers website that Sarai from Colette patterns suggested. It's great because you can actually upload photos and it takes a sample of the colours in the photo! 

I actually have three colour palettes for Autumn.  I just couldn't decide which I liked best--so I'm going to use all these colours and create three different streams for my sewing!  The first one is composed of greens and pinks.  These are often associated with Spring but I think these would look lovely for Autumn as well.

If you've been following my sewing for awhile, you know that cerise or a hotter shade of pink is a bit of a staple. 

Image sources: 1. Teal colour palette--my own creation, 2. me-made 'Mrs Peacock' outfit, 3. Ness Dotty jacket in 'Crush', 4. Gucci 2011 RTW collection, 5. Gucci 2011 RTW collection (I LOVE the colours in this collection), 6. Alexander McQueen 2006 collection, 7. Ness 'Northern Lights' tartan, 8. Chocolate and wine colour palette--my own creation.

My next set of colours incorporates teal--a colour I hope to be sewing a lot of this Autumn.  I want to use my 'Mrs Peacock' teal tweed skirt as a basis for several outfits.  

The third set of colours is inspired by reds, pinks and chocolate browns.  I call this my 'chocolate and wine' colour palette. I love it (almost as I love chocolates and wine)!  It incorporates a lot of red tartan as inspiration.

What about you?  What are your Autumn sewing colours? Are any of these colours in your plans?

My Spring Palette

Since this week's theme at Sew Weekly was sewing with Colette patterns...I decided to do a spring palette.  I know I'm a bit behind but it looked like a lot of fun and I've been really inspired by everyone else's palettes.

So here it is:

I'm inspired by bright, bold colors for spring.  Like a glass of red wine (yes, please!) or freshly mown grass or cherry blossom trees in full bloom.  You'll notice I included a pattern I've already made...ahem...I always do that with lists, include something I've already done so that I can tick it off right away! hahaha :-)  But to be fair, it is in the color palette.

For the Sew Weekly theme this week, I've been sewing up the Colette Parfait pattern.  I know I'm supposed to be making blouses to go with my separates not separates to go with my blouses but I've been dying to make up a 40's inspired pinafore for awhile...  pictures coming soon.

Can you believe it's March already?

Autumn Color Palette from 1940

Wow, it's hard to believe it's officially Autumn!  Where did the summer go?

The changing of the seasons always makes me think of my sewing plans and specifically what colors I want to focus on in my sewing.  Last spring and summer I really focused on pink and navy to match my two new (at the time) pairs of shoes.

Now, I'm thinking in terms of autumn and winter sewing and I still haven't decided what colors I want to focus on sewing.  So, I turned to some of my magazines from the year 1940 for a little inspiration.  These scans are from the August 1940 Vogue:

I like the use of neutral plaids and prints with a pop of color!

Though I also really like this color combination of blue and taupe:

I especially like that shade of blue--light and dusty....

Which is your favorite color combination?