you don't like working with or just plain don't like? Mine is purple. The only shade I like in the purple family is plum. This is not to say I don't like any of the posted quilts with purple in them - I would never insult another quilter's color choices.
I made a wedding quilt for a newphew, and he and his new wife wanted purple, red and blue. Since they live in Alaska, i did a bear paw pattern. Lord 'o mercy - I dreaded working on that quilt. Some days I just couldn't work on it at all, other days I sewed like crazy to get it done.
What's your color challenge?

Peach !
used to be lime green but it is growing on me!

Yellow. I see other quilters on here use yellow in beautiful quilts; I bought some yellow but every time I pull it out to use, I put it back and use another color.

Black!

Olive green and mustard yellow.

I think I would have to agree!

I use very little yellow, when I do it is a "cooler" yellow.
Can't say that I have used much peach, maybe only once.

Just don't like peach!
reminds me of the 70's bathrooms
lived in a house once that had a peach toilet and tub
I hated that room!

I have to say the only times I use orange/peaches and yellows are for Halloween type quilts, in small doses. I guess I also tend to not favor those colors.

Blue and White. I like blue just fine and live in my jeans, but for quilts, I never use blue or white. I'm starting to buy some blue batiks so we'll see where that leads. :oops: ;)

Well it used to be orange, but it seems the older I get, the more orange I buy.

probably purple...it's not a 'bad' color, i just really have a heck of a time working with it. i have made a couple quilts with some (as in little itty bitty bits) included. i have made one queen quilt that is an IRIS bouquet...and the quilt body is lots of lavenders & purples...it is probably the prettiest quilt i have ever made...as in when you see it it's just plain pretty! but it was a bugger to work on. my dd has requested a new quilt with dark greens and deep purples...boy, it's been 6 months since she brought this up...telling me no rush, Christmas or my birthday in march....but boy...i don't seem to be able to get my mind around this ... maybe after i catch up a little bit and can actually think about it...but
i also seem to have a bit of a problem with yellows...
i try to force myself to use lots of color

probally orange, just cant seem to use it ,something about it

I pretty much love all colors. When I asked my DH's niece what her favorite color was so I could make her a graduation present, her answer was black and orange. I was horrified. How could I make a black and orange quilt with out screaming holloween? I choose my fabrics very carefully and it turned out well. She loved it. Hope I never have to use those colors again tho!

Wow, I love mustard yellow.
I guess the color I like least would be peach.

For me it's aqua. I really don't like anything done in that color--houses, cars, walls. It reminds me of the locker room at the swimming pool when I was growing up. This is just my personal taste so I hope I'm not offending anyone. Several have mentioned colors I love to work with but I'm not taking it personally. :)

In the right quilt I like most colors.

What I really like least is no contrast. To me it is just plain boring. I am just naturally drawn to contrast.

Blue. I almost never use blue and I never buy blue.

I was never fond of browns, beige and "neutral" colors (probably because I think they're boring and they are used everywhere to not "offend" anyone when trying to sell a house). However, I was forced to use them in some round robins, and I rather like them now. There are colors I don't work with much or at all as dominant colors in a quilt, but I can and have worked with all the colors of the rainbow and the mud and rocks, and I'm OK with that.

The quilt tells me what color it wants to be. It's not like painting a room or something.

The vintage fabric color called poison green. It has no joy in it whatsoever.

brown and beige. beige is dirty white to my eyes. brown is just dirt.
and mustard, known as diaper-full yellow (for lack of a better description) in my house. (sorry if you like that color).
so how come when i see an earthtone quilt here, it looks good?

PINK!
Even though I'm a girl, I have never liked pink. Of course, I've never been a "girly girl" either....just a good old tomboy.
However, I do keep a very few small pieces of pink fabric in my stash because sometimes you just need a certain color to make everything look right.

is that a karate cat i see?

Brown is my least favorite color, I just can not find it in myself to use brown for anything. I also greatly dislike pastels.

Oh same here, can't even buy yellow. But I see it everywhere and it looks so good, yet I can't touch it. Must be an aversion I have to the color. And it looks great in others projects.

its not about one color or another that I don't like, it is more of the color combos to me. when you put mustard yellow olive green and dirty brown together or with certain shades of orange it gives me a tummy ach. don't know why but it just reminds me of my kitchen and bathroom and my tummy does yucky stuff. probably because i hate my bathroom and kitchen.

for me red, orange, and yellow are hard for me to work wirh. the only time I use red is in a red and white quilt or red work. Yellow VERY sparing, and even less orange.

There's no colors I truly hate-I just don't like "muddy colors". I prefer clear colors and tend towards light and mid tones. But I do like a distinct contrast because I feel it shows off the piecing and quilting better

I have just the fabric for you (sarcasm)! It's a Hoffman kaliedoscope print in the big random zigzags of red, orange, and yellow :twisted: Actually, I have another fabric from them in a similar colorway, but with circles. When you do need it, it comes in handy having it. See below - the long spikes.

Actually, there are a lot of fabrics in that compass I would NEVER have used when I started quilting!

I completely agree I do not like working with PINK!! I have only a few peices in my stash. Once in a while someone asks me to make something and they request PINK ... all I can think of is "why did it have to be pink!".

I'd have to say white is my #1 least favorite with a very close second being purple.

I think I dislike yellow the most - except for when used in combination with red and orange (then it reminds me of a sunset and it's really nice).

Raspberry & lime. Purples!

It is funny to see so many don't care for the color yellow. Years ago I read that babies tend to cry more in yellow rooms, which is odd because it is such a popular color for babies. I was in the Jinny Beyer shop looking for a yellow tonal fabric a few months back and I asked the clerk to direct me to the yellow fabric because I couldn't see any and she said, " Nope, Jinny doesn't care for yellow." Thought that was odd, but then again, it is her shop. I looked around and sure enough, in more than a dozen visits I had never noticed there was no yellow fabric and none of the border prints she is so well known for have any yellow coloring or tone to them at all. And now I know that apparently she isn't alone in her dislike of the color yellow.

btw, To answer your question, while quilt shop shopping I have yet to find a color I don't like :-D . Maribeth

orange, even for Halloweeen things I have trouble with it

I don't mind yellow but I think it needs to be used in very small amounts or it just screams at you.

Regarding Jinny Beyer, I've never really been partial to her fabrics. Now I know why. I like autumn colors which contain yellow in it's various shades and tones.

Actually, a "DANCE, like nobody's watching" cat. Not my picture, but I thought it was cute.

White........or any cream color.

Billy

Quiltilicious your quilt is beautiful but when I first looked, on my monitor it looks like a pizza LOL--yes, I'm getting dinner ready and I'm hungry. I do love those the way you've used them-it's hard to work with some color combos but you nailed it.

I don't think there is a color I don't like, but there are color combinations that don't do anything for me -- peach/country blue for example.

The trick that really helped me see past my favorites was a trip to the paint store-- yep the paint store. Those free paint chip brochures have wonderful professionally coordinated color combination. I will pick up and few of those and march off to the fabric store when I need to work a color that is not at the top of my list.

I like a lot of colors, but some are harder on my eyes than others. Neons are tough for me. And black is hard for me to work with.