Colour Inspiration Tuesday: The next Colour in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge is Yellow!
March has just about snuck up on us already, and that means it’s time to start getting our heads around next month’s quilt challenge colour. This year, at Clever Chameleon, the colour of the month is defined as our monthly focus colour in Jen Shaffer’s Monthly Color Challenge and blog hop. You still have a couple of days to link up your February blue creations at Jen’s – but only a couple, so please don’t forget! As beautiful as blue is, March will be all about yellow.
Yellow. Our next colour of the month is such a cheery, happy colour when used in its purest hues in the right amounts. Today we are going to give ourselves a dose of yellow exuberance to welcome in the new month of yellow challenges.
March is Yellow. The Colour of Emoji, Lego Men and Minions. Definitely not my favourite colour, but used wisely, yellow is a blast of sunshine! 🙂
Yellow is a statement. A bold statement. It says “Notice Me!!”. There is no ignoring yellow.
And that’s a good thing because lots of things need noticing. Flowers need to be noticed. By us. And by bees. Flowers advertise in yellow. Hazards need to be noticed. So we mark them out in yellow. When we need to be able to find a piece of information again in a hurry, we highlight it…… in yellow. So it will be noticed.
Yellow is a beacon and a guide. A help to remember. Yellow keeps us safe. And yellow keeps us dry.
Yellow is an Enigma
Yellow is a paradox. Is yellow a symbol of childishness? “Yes”, marketers say. Avoid using it to market goods to powerful men!
So. Who wants to tell these guys that yellow is sissy………?
Yellow is stimulating, full of energy, hope and optimism. Yellow brings the sunshine inside and speaks of freshness and new life. There is little that is fresher than an opening daffodil bud or a sunflower tracking the sun. But yellow is also toxic, finished and dying. Yellow is the first colour of Autumn.
Yellow is ripe. Sometimes sweet. Sometimes sour. Yellow is for courage. Or yellow is for cowardice. Yellow is for honesty and loyalty….. or deceit and jealousy. Yellow is culturally nuanced. Is yellow lemon flavoured? Or is it honey flavoured? It largely depends on where you live. I told you yellow is complex!
Yellow is also a trickster. Yellow is the colour of real happiness and of artificial happiness. Somehow surrounding ourselves with the fake happiness actually gives us a dose of the real thing. Smiley yellow faces, minions and rubber ducks. Yellow is contagious. Amazing!
But you can can also, definitely, take yellow too far.
Too much yellow causes a loss of focus and makes it hard to complete a task. Yellow can be exhausting, irritating, overwhelming. Just goes to show that too much of a good thing is still too much.
So, for our own safety, we had better stop there. That’s enough yellow for one day!
But tomorrow is a different story. Is there going to be sunshine in your sewing space in March?
In just a couple of days there will be several new yellow blocks for you to try in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge blog hop. And of course, my newest yellow bear appliqué from the Beary Colourful BOM. If none of these options take your fancy, you can make something of your own choosing for the challenge instead, as long as it’s yellow.
The sponsor of the Monthly Color Challenge for March is Make Modern Magazine. The prize draw at the end of March for people who link up a yellow project will be for one of three 6-month subscriptions to the Make Modern Quilting eMagazine. Make Modern Magazine is proudly Australian, just like Clever Chameleon.
Yellow is definitely complex.
But your sewing project for March need not be. Just one quilt block is all it takes to be eligible for the prize draw at Patterns by Jen. Of course, you can make a whole yellow quilt and link it up if you wish. Don’t let me dissuade you! But one block will also suffice. 🙂 I hope you are inspired to quilt yellow next!
P.S. There are already a couple of sneak peeks of the Yellow Bear of Being Active Outside on the Clever Chameleon facebook page.
