Discovering New Color Palettes

Spent the weekend working on my giant granny square blanket. It's taking a little longer than I estimated, but I'm enjoying the exercise.

Meanwhile I'm contemplating color combinations for the next blanket. I have several sites I like to check out for popular color combos and playing with new colors.

COLOURlovers is a global community of creatives who share palettes, patterns, and more.

Kuler always has some great palettes to inspire you.

Kuler is a web app for generating color schemes and checking out other people's palettes.


Pictaculous generates color palettes from photos you upload to the site.

The next step is finding yarns in these colors! To be honest, I'm often limited by the yarn that's available to me at the time I'm inspired to make a project. I think I may look into an iPhone app that helps me generate color palettes while I'm standing in the local yarn store.

By the way, with regards to the giant granny square blanket: can anyone tell me how to keep all four sides lined up parallel? Right now my outer squares look like they are turning by at least 5 to 10 degrees from the center square... I'm going to end up with a spiral if I keep going at this rate.