Colour matching
A useful tip from Sarah Webley
I often decide to paint a pattern and find it uses a colour that I don’t have, and I don’t want to order it
and have to wait until it arrives - because I want to paint it now! So I often mix my own colour. I’ve
found the easiest way to start is to look up the colour on a paint chart online and also look up the
nearest colour I have to it. When you have to scroll up and down it’s not easy to compare them so I
take a screen shot of each colour (I use Screenhunter 6 * which is easy to use and free) and paste
them into a document. It is then easy to enlarge them side by side and compare them. I can then see
what I need to add to the colour I have in order to get a reasonable approximation of the colour I want. I
know that it is notoriously difficult to use online charts for true colours, but then a lot of us use printed
patterns that are not necessarily printed true to colour either - and this works well enough for me!
Here’s an example:
I want Toffee and the nearest I have is Antique White. I can see that I need to lighten