TeresaA

Thanks for the ideas.

You would be surprised at how few of my blues and corals go with this fabric. I don't have many corals, but I have 2 huge shelves of blue, many different tones. The only one that worked super well was a navy with a slightly greenish yellow star.

If the color of a fabric doesn't have a slight green or yellow tinge to it, it clashes really badly with this fabric, turns it into the green blob. I love green but this is ugly green. It's funny how fabrics are so much different when next to other fabrics. I would think it would work with batiks because they often have a mossy cast, but most of them don't work either. I have found one red-purple batik that is nice.

I told my DH that the color was called "ivory". He said "THAT!!! is not IVORY!" I love when he's adamant about something regarding my hobby.

Being really positive about it, the color is about the shade of sunbeams through a green forest....sort of a light yellow that picks up green? Maybe I'll use it for a sunbeam in a landscape quilt. I'd only need a tiny bit, then the rest would be BACKING.

Yes, backing. That's what DH said too.

I've also been digging through my 20 year old procion dyes (do dyes expire?)....maybe I'll turn some of it black. I do need more black. Oh, it does work with this weird geometric black and yellow batik I have.

I tried taking a picture just now, but it didn't do it justice ;-). It looked so sweet and innocent, rather than like the green monster that it is.