Color Camp registration has closed for the season.
While registration is currently closed, you can still continue exploring color, creativity, and quilting through Tara’s growing library of on-demand video courses.
Color Camp will reopen its doors next spring!
Learn how to pair colors and create palettes that work, and know why they work. Deepen your understanding using hands-on color studies, guided exercises, and Tara’s approach to value, contrast, and color interaction.
If you love color but often second-guess your color choices, this course will help you trust your eye.
Not by memorizing rules, but by seeing color differently.
Color Camp will return in 2027!
Does this sound familiar?
- second-guessing your palette choices
- unsure if your colors really work together
- wondering when a palette is “finished”
- struggling to balance lights, mediums, and darks
- wanting to use bold color but not knowing how to make it work
You're not alone! Many quilters love color, but haven’t been shown how to see it clearly.
That’s exactly what Color Camp is designed to teach.
A Different Way to Learn Color
Most color classes focus on rules or formulas.
Color Camp takes a different approach, because I don't use rules myself!
Instead of memorizing color theory, you’ll explore color through a series of hands-on exercises and small studies that help you observe how color actually behaves.
As you experiment and reflect on what you see, patterns begin to emerge. Over time, your eye becomes more sensitive to the relationships between colors & values, and you begin to understand how small changes can take a color combination form blah to yes!! .
In Color Camp, you'll learn how to:
- Feel more confident choosing fabrics without relying on strict color rules
- Understand how value shapes design
- Create contrast, movement, and harmony with color
- Recognize when a palette is finished
- Combine colors you might never have considered before
- Trust your instincts when working with color
Through a series of hands-on studies and guided exercises, you’ll start to see color relationships in an entirely new way.
By the end of Color Camp, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how color works in quilts and greater confidence making your own color decisions.
How the Course Works
Create small color exercises
Explore how different fabrics interact with one another.
Experiment with value relationships
Learn to see how light and dark shapes structure a design.
Develop confidence making color decisions
Through repeated experimentation, gain the skills to trust yourself.
Practice building and refining palettes
Using fabrics from your own stash!
How Color Camp Works
Color Camp runs for four weeks and is designed as a guided studio experience.
Plan for about 2–3 hours of studio time each week to watch the lessons and work through the exercises. You’re welcome to spend more time experimenting if you’d like to continue developing your studies and palettes.
Each week includes:
SHORT VIDEO LESSONS
Focused lessons introduce the key ideas for the week and help you understand what to look for as you begin working with color.
DEMONSTRATIONS
You’ll watch me create color exercises and studies so you can see how the ideas translate into practice.
STUDIO EXERCISES
You’ll explore color through a series of quick exercises and small stitched studies designed to help you observe how colors interact.
OPTIONAL STRETCH PROMPTS
Additional prompts encourage you to push your experiments a little further if you’d like to keep exploring during the week.
FAQ
Do I need to be an experienced quilter?
Do I need to be an experienced quilter?
No. As long as you are comfortable with basic sewing and quilting tools, you’ll be able to participate in the exercises and studies.
How much time should I plan for each week?
How much time should I plan for each week?
Most students spend about 3 hours per week working through the lessons and exercises. You are welcome to spend more time experimenting with the stretch prompts if you’d like.
What materials will I need?
What materials will I need?
You’ll primarily work with fabrics from your own stash. Having a variety of small pieces or scraps available will make it easier to create the color exercises.
You will also need basic sewing tools for the stitched studies later in the course.
How long will I have access to the content?
How long will I have access to the content?
You will have access to the course all summer! Come back repeatedly when you need color inspiration.
Will the Zoom sessions be recorded?
Will the Zoom sessions be recorded?
Yes! It will take about 24 hours to make the recordings available after each meet up
Will we make a finished quilt?
Will we make a finished quilt?
This class focuses on color exploration and palette building rather than a single finished project. The exercises and studies are designed to help you understand how color works so that you can apply what you learn to future quilts.
Still have a question?
Still have a question?
Email me at hello@tarafaughnan.com
