Colour Theory 🎨 in Crafting
Being able to understand how colours work together through mixing, contrast, hue, saturation and combination to find a colour scheme to suit your project is a blend of science, visual perception and understanding colour wheels and traditional colour schemes.
Let's dive into all things colour as we talk about seven colour harmonies: analogous, monochromatic, complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic and square. How they work, why they work, and we share our own ideas for colour combinations and patterns that help highlight these different approaches.
We also added lots of tips to help troubleshoot when you just need a little extra help.
Tips and Troubleshooting
Even with all the ideas and colour scheme combinations at hand, a project can just seem off. Not to worry, we have tips and suggestions for ways to get the colours sorted out and get a balanced looking finished project.
Tip #1 - Contrast
A great way to make sure your colour combinations will pop and not get lost is to check the contrast of your yarn. An easy way to do this, is to take a photo of your yarn and apply a black and white filter to it, this will enable you to see if your colour choices are going to be high contrast, low contrast, and then make changes accordingly.
Tip #2 - Balance
Tip #3 - Picking Colours Online
It can be hard to put colours together, especially when shopping online. Things to consider are wether the yarn you've chosen is a warm tone or cool tones. If you are making the project for yourself, what colour suits you most? Think about your wardrobe and what you like to wear the most, or what is missing you'd like to have.
When you are shopping online, it can help to put the colours you're looking for in the cart so you can see them next to each other to get a better idea of how they look and be sure they make the right combination.
Additionally, you can search for projects on Ravelry based on the colours used and how many colours were used. This is another great way to see and save ideas for a future project.
Tip #4 - Finding Inspiration
If you need help with colour selection, send us an email and we're happy to put together some suggestions for you. You can also use colour wheels, like this free one on Canva, to get some palette ideas together for your next project.
We hope this deep dive into colour was helpful!
Happy Making 🤗
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