Since people could enter the Emerald mosaic contest twice, I decided to take another gander at putting fabrics together.  I was too late to submit this particular mosaic, but I thought I’d post it on my blog anyway, because I enjoyed having a different approach and drastically different result.

Instead of starting with a solid green, I started with the three greens you see.  I had originally been working on a complete collection of kind of airy green fabrics that had green in them, but were mostly grounded in white or cream.  I wasn’t liking how they were fitting together, so I started over.

This time, though, I started with VisiBone Webmaster’s ColorLab.  It’s a great tool for those doing web design to get an idea of how colors will mesh together.  I chose colors opposite from each other on the color wheel first (green and purple), then another color close to purple, then another close to green.  The result was a green-purple-orange-yellow combination that I really liked!

Above is the resulting set of fabrics I chose in those colors.  My only qualm is the top purple fabric.  It seems too heavy for the rest of the fabrics I included, but I had a surprisingly difficult time finding a good purple!  It seems there are plenty of browns, greens, blues, reds, PINKS, and oranges, but not too many yellows or purples — at least not in the theme of simple patterns that I was looking for.  What do you think?  I’ve really enjoyed working with color combinations and then trying to hunt for fabrics that matched.