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Scrap Republic Blog Tour Day 8: Indigo

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What’s indigo you ask? Well an “official” explanation:

Indigo is a color named after the purple dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet.

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This is where the book strayed from roy g biv. Indigo is technically inbetween blue and purple. But all of my fabric that was somewhere inbetween blue and purple? It got stuck with blue or purple. But there were tons of fabric scraps that had no where to go — the blacks, browns, greys and really dark blues (what I always associate with indigo). This is where the real world diverges from theory and we just make the quilts look good.

Let’s see what John @ QuiltDad has to say about indigo (and brown and black and grey).

Indigo (and brown and black and grey) to me? Well, we live in Seattle. So let’s the stereotypes begin!

Dude, we rock the grey.

But don’t forget, there’s a whole heck of a lot of blue too.  But blue was yesterday — can’t talk about blue today.

Just one more day on our colorful little blog tour!

Today is another chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have lined up!

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Scrap Republic from C&T Publishing (printed version for residents, PDF for international)

Scrap Republic Eco Tote from C&T Publishing (US residents only)

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Bag o’ Scraps from Robert Kaufman (US and International)

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ROY G BIV Essential Cotton Thread in Red, Pumpkin, Butter, Lime, Cerulean, Midnight, and Red Violet from Connecting Threads (US residents only)

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Mrs. Roy G. Biv Pattern from Carolina Patchworks (the pattern that inspired the book!) (US and International)

Make sure to visit all the stops!

Monday October 3: White
Rachel Griffith @ p.s. i quilt
http://www.psiquilt.com

Tuesday October 4: Pink
Kathy Mack @ Pink Chalk Studio
http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog

Wednesday October 5: Red
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop
http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com

Thursday October 6: Orange
Jake Finch @ Generation Q Magazine
http://generationqmagazine.com

Friday October 7: Yellow
Pat Sloan @ {The Voice of Quilting}
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner

Saturday October 8: Green
Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads
http://www.connectingthreads.com/blog

Sunday October 9: Blue
Scott Hansen @ Blue Nickel Studios
http://bluenickelstudios.com

Monday October 10: Indigo
John Adams @ Quilt Dad
http://www.quiltdad.com

Tuesday October 11: Violet
Allie Heath @ Robert Kaufman
http://www.swatchandstitch.com

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emily cier.

quilts. color. fun. life. seattle.

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