December 2022 - Winter Rose Color Palette

Dec 15

Written By Jenny

It’s finally here, our December Christmas Palette. While it’s December and Christmas is just around the corner, it does not feel like Christmas-time to me.

I still feel like it should be July.

So, that being said, I wasn’t feeling a traditional Christmas Color palette was in order. So, while grocery shopping I found a magazine with a white and pink Christmas tree and really loved the vibe. So, I came home to see what I could find. Enter “Half-Blown Rose.”

The pink is what drew me to the book and with the blue sky, I felt like we’d get a beautiful “cold” palette. I was not disappointed.

Here’s the Paintbrush Studio’s Colors I ended up matching. Quick note - in the blocks, I use different pinks in the fabric pull than the color swatches they have available. Why? Well, the Rosebud is missing from their swatch download, so I kept my original. However, the pinks listed below are the ones you’ll want to get if you decide to use this for a project.

99 - Rice Paper (this is my favorite white neutral from Paintbrush!)
20 - Sky
38 - China Blue
148 - Impatient
68 - Rosebud

It really is gorgeous - and the quilt block is wonderful.

In fact, I loved the block so much, I made a quick baby sized quilt mock-up!

I think we’ll keep both the block and quilt mock-ups - it’s so fun to see how these turn out. I’ve been doing a lot of English Paper Piecing (EPP) lately, so I’m going to see if there’s a way to do an EPP Block mock-up too.

It always makes me so happy when I see something inspiring out in the “real world” and it turns out so wonderful in real-life.

I’m still working on finishing my “Kingdoms of Savannah” book. It and this book are not my traditional fantasy reads, but I will get these read. I’m looking into how to link/share these books on StoryGraph to where you can get the list of books to add to your “To Read” pile if they inspire you.

Enjoy! And I wish you all a Happy Holiday season!