Originally Posted by
sewbizgirl
Ugh... how dumb was I??? I just got my order from Thousands of Bolts. I like them because they have such a huge selection of FQs. I ordered 10 FQs to help round out my color groups for Allietaire, plus the yard and a half of gray. Out of the 10 FQs, I can only use 4. Three of my "blacks" ended up being GREENs, and another one is a BROWN. One of my golds is too greenish and another one is too dark... like a tan. And that yard and a half of gray? It's TAUPE! Totally wrong. So, I will put these aside and will go shopping at a brick and mortar fabric shop. Learned my lesson.
Been there, done that!! It is a real crap shoot trying to get exact/close color matches from Internet shopping. I will say I have better luck with fabric.com than Thousands of Bolts in this respect, I think TOB thumbnail fabric icons are not very accurate at all on color hues.