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10-25-2016, 07:45 AM

#423

onaemtnest

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Location: Rocky Mountains of Idaho

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Originally Posted by SewingSew

"One man's trash is another man's treasure." I too love paisley.

It is really interesting, I don't love paisley but find the colorways that are usually in a paisley print interesting. However it seems that many people have an aversion to the paisley print. They remind me of the late 60's and early 70's when everyone seemed to be wearing paisley's.

An online group started annual quilting retreats in Arizona and during one of the retreats we were given a challenge mystery bag with just paisley prints and blender fabrics to make something during the retreat with those fabrics. There were probably 35 women there and I would say there were at least a third of the women that reacted to the paisley fabrics as though they'd opened a bag of snakes or spiders the groans and protests were very evident! :0) I was so surprised by that.

As for me paisley prints I'm pretty much neutral on that pattern.