Color inspiration on the web

As much as I love to wear black, there are few things as exciting to a sewer as putting together colors and textures. Playing with color must be a fundamental reason that a lot of us get into sewing. We each have our personal preferences, the colors we think look best on us, and the colors we have emotional attachments to. Putting these colors together in interesting and novel ways is a big factor in what makes sewing so much fun.

Lately, I’ve been noticing a lot of color-focused blogs and websites. They are a rich source of inspiration for picking out fabric or coming up with new color stories. Here are a few of the sites I’ve been checking out:

Color Collective, pictured above, is a gorgeous blog by Lauren Willhite. She pulls unusual palettes from the work of other artists and designers, and the results are striking and unusual.

The Wear Palettes blog draws its colors from street fashion photos. There are many beautiful slightly muted palettes to be seen here.

Colour Lovers is a community website where anyone can post color palettes, and it is absolutely chock full of good ideas.

Kuler is Adobe’s take on the color community. Again, lots of good ideas to be had!

Just looking at these makes me want to do a little fabric shopping!