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DESIGN AND EMBELLISHMENT TIP
Paint Chips
When you're deciding on a color palette, follow the method professional designers use and make color swatch boards to establish color schemes. Every time I enter a paint store, I pull a few of my favorite colors from the chip rack to add to the color card basket in my sewing room. When I begin a new project, I search the basket for the tints and tones that complete my color scheme. I then paste the selection of chips on a square of mat board and use this color tool for shopping and creating. After the project is finished I have a record of the color scheme I used. Shopping by memory without the color board can be hazardous to your project. It's much better to match than mismatch.
 -- Bonnie Bledsoe Fuchs
Adapted from Tips department, Threads magazine, August/September 2003 (#108), p. 12; photo: Scott Phillips.
© 2003 The Taunton Press, Inc.
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