Pantone’s Color of 2015 and Remembering our Bead Blocks

Posted by on December 5, 2014 in block lotto community | 4 comments

Remember the great color palette, suggested by Debbie, that we used for our Bead-on-a-String blocks in February and just how hard it was to find fabrics in that brownish-red color?

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(If you weren’t around then, you can see photos of the blocks made by sneak seekers in my Flickr album: Bead-on-a-String Virtual Blocks

I think it’s going to become easier to find those earthy reds soon … I just saw Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2015.  They call it Marsala.

What do you think? It’s not a color I can wear easily, I don’t see it fitting into the decor of my house, but I loved it in combination with the yellows, golds and oranges in our bead blocks at the beginning of the year.

And I think, thanks to Debbie, the Block Lotto was ahead of this color trend 🙂

Should we try this again, perhaps in one of the other combinations suggested on the Pantone site? You can see the complete Pantone Fashion Color Report for Spring 2015 here.

I always find it interesting to see how these chosen colors start turning up, not only in Fashion, but in places like advertising and website design.

 

4 Comments

  1. Hi Sophie. was that colour called Maroon?…I remember asking different fabric shop staff here in Ontario for examples of that colour and each person showed me a different colour LOL. I saw it on an Acryilic craft paint bottle at my sisters and it was different yet again again…but, closer to this colour you are showing us todaye I have no problem with working with this colour again, I would hate to be considered Maroon colour challenged. ( One girl even told me Maroons were light coloured cookies so the fabric was probably quite light) snort!

  2. I don’t like the color! Too much brown in it for my tastes and I really can’t see it taking off in popularity! We shall see.

  3. Someone whose blog I follow (but I cannot remember who) put it in the mauve family and included it in the dulled down Japanese fabrics that are so popular and I can kind of see it that way, too.

  4. I think it looks great in the fabric line up you shared Sophie, the paint is a tad off the fabric hue on my monitor…it looks like very old ‘wet’ bricks ( like a lot of houses built here in the late 1800’s were made of) it is earthy.

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