Fabric Palette Friday #15: Soda Rainbow

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! This bundle is giving me all the fun summer feels today. What a way to end the week! As in past weeks, this one began with an inspiration fabric — those wonderful soda bottles by Rashida Coleman-Hale (from her Pop collection for Ruby Star Society, out of print). It ended up leading to another rainbow stack, but a quirkier one that eschewed primary colors for brighter jewel tones.

I was surprised by how many Carolyn Friedlander prints I ended up pulling for this one, but perhaps I shouldn’t be because she makes such excellent “basics.” The peach crosshatch, yellow and green gingham, and turquoise “pebbles” prints are all hers.

Of course, I rounded things out with a few solids as well, in part because they were the best matches in my stash for some of the colors in the bottle print, but also because mixing solids and prints adds balance and a range of visual interest to a fabric palette. Using smaller-scale prints and blenders was important so that they didn’t compete with the inspiration print.

Leave a comment and let me know what colors you’re working with this week. Then join in on Instagram using #fabricpalettefriday to share your own creations!