tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post417190112046719128..comments2023-04-14T04:07:11.170-07:00Comments on State of the Craft: Toward a Diagnostic Instrument for Pre-Design Chromatic EvaluationMichael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post-87565516719066791692007-08-25T20:05:00.000-07:002007-08-25T20:05:00.000-07:00They worked! I think!Market them, though? I dunn...They worked! I think!<BR/><BR/>Market them, though? I dunno. It would be an AWFULLY niche product, and you'd have to either make a million quilts or secure rights to use images of them, and that sounds like an enormous pain. Also, as (the always brilliant) Mrs. 5000 says, you'd probably want to throw in some cutesy mumbo-jumbo to make 'em sell, and that would drive me bonkers.<BR/><BR/>@rebel: Well yeah, but the reason I made the cards is because using something like paint chips doesn't have enough quilt context to it. One things I'm noticing from the cards is that people tend to group them according to overall intensities of color or levels of value contrast, rather than according to colors per se. It's interesting, and not something you'd find out from paint chips.<BR/><BR/>A little story: on the way to Sisters, I decided I was going to try to find (and announce on this blog) my favorite quilt for each of the seven traditional spectral colors, plus grey and brown. Once I got to the show, I realized immediately that it was a completely stupid idea, and was embarassed that I had thought of it after 13 years of quilting. Why? <I>Because quilts are rarely in a single range of color</I>. Well under 20% in the Sisters show, by my count, could be said to BE a certain color.<BR/><BR/>I thought that was interesting. And then, when it came time to think about Niece #1's quilt, I thunk to myself, "I know her favorite color is green -- but to know this is to know nothing. I need to get her talking about some real quilts."<BR/><BR/>Wow, what a ridiculously long comment I just made.Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post-71527914021208957062007-08-16T19:18:00.000-07:002007-08-16T19:18:00.000-07:00It was quite fun to be the guinea pig evaluatee. I...It was quite fun to be the guinea pig evaluatee. I feel like Michael knows my aesthetic preferences pretty well, so the fact that he learned something new speaks well for the evaluation process. Probably to be marketable, you'd want it to have a pretty multi-layered analysis. A little more complicated, with lots of pretty charts. Or else a personality type diagnosis: "Are you a Pastel? I'm a Jewel Tone. You value family and self-sacrifice; I'm imaginative and somewhat eccentric. How 'bout that!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post-10439228405763147582007-08-14T20:52:00.000-07:002007-08-14T20:52:00.000-07:00You realize, you could also just send the person d...You realize, you could also just send the person down to the Fred Meyer pain department and ask them to pick out a couple color cards that they like. 'Course your way is a lot cooler. ;)Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835352917180439099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post-28374317282441905212007-08-14T20:16:00.000-07:002007-08-14T20:16:00.000-07:00Yup pitch it to Fons & Porter and make your first ...Yup pitch it to Fons & Porter and make your first million :-) It's a really good idea...as much as I love attempting to guess what I think my quilt recipients will like, it seems sooo much smarter to do it this way - or any other way.Libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529250478920225750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29880024.post-73644163808488625322007-08-14T18:08:00.000-07:002007-08-14T18:08:00.000-07:00So clever -- love the concept! Will be interested ...So clever -- love the concept! Will be interested to see if it works. If so, will you market the cards? I find it hard to have "help" from the people I'm making quilts for. It's difficult for non-quilters to see a block or pattern and separate it from the particular fabrics in it, and it's hard to see a bolt of fabric and understand how it will work, in proportion, with the other fabrics and the overall design.jovaliquiltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658198685121310571noreply@blogger.com