sweet

I'm trying to decide which color I should use for various future projects. Is there much af a difference between the two or is it possible using both would clash in a quilt?

Thanks for you opinion!!!!!!!!!!

ghostrider

I don't have those two specific colors, but, to my eye, there is enough of a difference in all Kona solids colors to be noticible. Whites can vary quite a bit or just a little and if it's just a little, it can look like one is just grungier than the other. I wouldn't use them together for that reason. Ask Favorite Fabrics if she can check her color card for you to see how close they are.

amma

I agree with ghostrider, whites should probably be purchased in large enough quantities to use the same one in a quilt.
The same fabric can even vary from one dye lot to another too :wink:

clem55

I'Ve got a dozen whites, and none are the same!

leaha

I buy all my white and black fabric by the bolt, so not a problem :-)

justwannaquilt

AGREE!

Favorite Fabrics

Ok, and so I did...

The color "white" is just clean white, like a blank piece of paper.

The color "snow", on my sample card, is more like milk white. I mean whole milk, not skim!

Puts me in mind of that song from the musical "Oklahoma", about the horses ... "One's like snow, the other's more like milk..."

sweet

Thanks so very much for all of your replies!

I guess either would be good, so I should pick one and stick with it!

Probably cannot go wrong with the true "white".

Prism99

I don't know; pure true "white" can be glarey -- for example, for a wall painting color, both true-white and off-white will reflect a lot of light but the true-white will look more harsh. Also, a true-white typically has a grayish cast to it whereas a whole-milk white would likely have a very slightly yellowish cast to it (from the butter content in milk). A grayish white will look cold whereas a yellowish white will look warm. I usually dislike colors with a grayish cast to them; to me they often seem simultaneously dull and cold. Occasionally a grayish cast is needed to calm down nearby bright colors, but my thought is that milk white would be softer and calmer and more widely compatible with other colors.

Just a few thoughts.....

mlaceruby

Well honestly I just went to take a picture of the 3 next to each other to show the difference.
And I can't see much but this would most likely vary from bolt to bolt also.
Don't think they would clash.