Shannon Brinkley Studio Blog

How to Build a Fabric Palette: Working with Golds Oct 24, 2017
Sometimes a fabric palette will start with one thread of an idea-- sometimes a literal thread. I saw gold embroidery on a dark cobalt fabric, and I knew I wanted to translate that into a quilt. My new...
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How to Create a Dynamic Color Palette for your next Quilt Oct 19, 2017
I wanted to share my thought process behind the fabric selection for my recent quilt, GLOBE. I often want to include both warm and cool colors in a quilt to create a really dynamic palette. There are ...
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Color Inspiration: Aqua, Blue, Purple, Gold Oct 10, 2017

When choosing fabric for this quilt I started with several different mints and aquas, dropped in a bright blue, gold, and purple, with black and white accents. I think those blue, gold, and purple pop...

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Color Inspiration: Blue, Mint, Orange, Magenta Sep 26, 2017

Here is a little color palette inspiration for you! The quilt is made up of all Northcott Solids, but for the fabric pull below, I included some prints so you could see how prints would look in this p...

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Color Inspiration: Greens, Gold, Magenta Sep 05, 2017

Have you ever tried to pair two colors that you know should go together based on the color wheel, but they just didn't look great to you? 

For example, with a little bit of knowledge of the color whe...

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Color Inspiration: Blue, Turquoise, Gold Aug 29, 2017

Here is another color palette idea for you! The background is a simple patchwork of a bunch of blues, turquoises, and light gray, and the appliqué piece is all gold. Since gold and turquoise are almos...

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Color Inspiration: Blue, Green, Orange, Magenta Aug 22, 2017

Here is a little color palette inspiration for you! I decided to place colors on this quilt by temperature, so cool colors are at the North and South poles, and warm colors in warm parts of the world....

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Color Confidence for Quilters Part 7: What is Color Saturation? Aug 15, 2017

I have a secret to tell you.... did you know that there are no right or wrong color combinations? Any color can go with any other color if you make a few adjustments: "Magic Color Dials", if you will,...

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Windy Poplar Tree Quilt -- simple, but vibrant. Jan 01, 2017

Do you ever wake up one morning with an idea you are crazy excited about? This happened to me one Saturday in 2016. I had lots of productive things planned for the day, but it all went out the window ...

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City Skyline Quilt Patterns Nov 22, 2016

I have over 100 different Scrappy Appliqué City Skyline patterns available in my shop-- so everyone can find a city that they love. These skylines also make great gifts!

Austin Skyline-6

I wanted to break down the ...

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