Rosie the "Ripper"

I just returned home from my LQS with seven pieces of fabric that I just had to have. Don't have a project in mind yet, but will eventually. They have been laundered now and gently folded. Went to put them in my fabric cabinet and realized that I am constantly buying "green" and "rose" colored fabric.
I have small piles of yellow, blue, brown, and neutral colors, and then there are the greens and rose colors. Never realized I had twice as much of these colors. Am I in a rut??? Should I go out and buy more of the "skimpy" color piles?? What would you do? It is still light outside and the stores are still open!

seamstome

I buy purple and green. To step outside of my color comfort zone, I must SEE the project done in that colorway and then buy similar fabrics. I can imagine almost any project done in my favorites of purple and green! but cannot imagine it in another colorway.

Another suggestion is to go shopping with a friend. My GF loves neutrals, olivy greens, browns, etc. When I am with her, she helps me out of my rut and I do the same for her.

quiltgrammyt2

I also do this but they are reds and blues!!!
And, YES go out and fix the problem, just stay away from the greens and roses and you'll be fine. :roll: :D :D

luvspaper

I do tend to gravitate to certain colors! There for a while it was masculine ones --- civil war, navys, browns, etc.

Now I seemed to have moved on .... I am trying to widen out my range.

I like finding patterned material with lots of colors (like a paisley) and then working the other colors of a quilt out from there!

MisDixie

I am a sucker for all colours but purple! For some reason they just usually don't get picked. However... for some unknown reason purple has popped into my basket over the last few months. Not a clue as to what I am going to do with it, LOL! other than add it to the stash.

quiltsRfun

Would you use the other colors if you bought them? Probably you'll sew what you like the most. I have a few colors outside my comfort zone and I'm not even tempted to do something with them. Plenty of ideas and can't wait to get started on the ones I love.

Tropical

Be happy that you can find great fabrics in your favorite colors and let the skimpy stacks take care of themselves. You will get more of them when you see something in those colors you really can't live without. Happy quilting.:)

Elisabethann

I do the same thing. I finally got around to organizing some of my fabric and realized that as time passes, my color preference has changed too. When organizing I found lots of navy and pink. Now I am buying blues and greens and purples...

But... I have told myself no more purchases until I have the next few UFO's completed. We'll see how long that lasts!

arimuse

I seem to buy blues/greens/Christmas prints. I always carry a notepad in my purse, and I've told myself, as soon as I get my sewing rm straight I will make a list of colors I need/ am low on. I think if I carry notes with me I could at least buy things on the spur of the moment that I could use, or lack. sharet

np3

I went through the pink/dusty rose and green stage. Now I am into browns and fall colors. I have no idea why. I have enough Christmas fabric to sink a small boat so I finally trained myself to stop buying snowmen and penguins and gingerbread men and angels and Santa, well you get the idea.