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For me the most difficult color to find has always been (for over 50 years!) pale yellow. I can find golden yellow, bright yellow, greenish yellow, orangey yellow, but not butter yellow. The clerks look at me strangely when I ask for it.
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Peach, pale yellow, true reds and light reds are all shades I've had trouble finding.
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I needed a medium wine for the quilt I wanted to make, but I never found it so I had to change my quilting palette.
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Here in Australia, i find it hard to get any colours that resemble rust (like fall colours) Yellows and oranges. Moest common here are blues and greens, can always get that if you want it.
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Originally Posted by katiebear1
I have been looking for peach. All I find is either too yellow or too prange or too pink
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Around here gray is almost impossible to find. needed it 2 different times and couldnt find.
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Originally Posted by ginnyk
Light red that doesn't look pink. I did learn the trick to try the back of some fabrics if working with a large number of graduated colors. Sometimes you can luck out.
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I have a terrible time with yellows. Not enough varieties out there. All I find is light or dark, nothing in between.
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Somehow it seems the hardest color to find is the particular one I want for a specific project.
I find all the colors I want when I don't need them. sigh. ali |
Originally Posted by Mousie
I'm not picky, I just care a lot, lol! :XD:
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Originally Posted by justme2
After looking in 2-3 places, I can usually find the shade of whatever color I need.
Last wk I was stumped trying to find rose color yardage.The stores have pale pink,hot pink,reddish pink ,a purple pink....but no rose. Was afraid to trust colors on line & finally bought the 2yds I needed. It's close, but still not the perfect rose. :roll: :roll: |
Originally Posted by zennia
Around here gray is almost impossible to find. needed it 2 different times and couldnt find.
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I wanted to make a quilt with butter yellow for the background of some of the blocks and I couldn't find any at
all! This was in the early 90s when I was a new quilter. |
Originally Posted by Sadiemae
For awhile I could find a lot of purple, but right now it is hard to find.
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I have a big stash and yet there are some colors I still need... I like true colors that are deeply saturated.. I had a rust I loved, used it all and now can't seem to find anything even near... Colors do come in and go out depending on the style of the times... I have been going through my deceased MIL's fabric.. oh the browns she has.. which are now coming to my house. a very sad way to round out a stash.
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For my current project it took me forever to find the right shade of grey for my borders.
Usually I have trouble finding something in the right color AND style. For example, there's a few Japanese style prints...something with sprays of cherry blossoms, but I can never seem to find something in black with the pink cherry blossoms. Most stuff I've seen have backgrounds in pink or some sort of pastel. I think when I was working on my Zelda quilted stained glass project (before I lost all the friggin files and now have to start over) I had trouble finding marbled or watercolor fabrics in certain colors. Had even more trouble matching some solids for my Mario quilt (again, before I lost everything for it and have to start all over). |
I've been keeping an eye out for a certain green that I haven't seen anywhere but in a pattern (which doesn't say the fabric). It's kind of a 30's type of color, close to a Tiffany Blue, but not that blue, more green.
I really like that color... I also like Tiffany Blue. :lol: |
Originally Posted by mollymct
Whatever color you really need!! Or that's the case for me.
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Yep.. one more justification to keep that stash full :)
Tones and trends change, but they all come back :) Good reason to Quilt for years:) Not long ago went back and bought same fab as what was purchased a couple of weeks earlier and is a completely different color.... had enough to finish that area, and start border in the new shade, looks OK. TG |
Nice bright cherry red....still looking and I guess it will eventually turn up!
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Royal purple. Most are too blue or too purple. Orange is second in line. If I see a pretty orange, I always buy at least 1/2 yard.
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I find Marshall's in Batesville, Ar carries a good range of colors. They wholesale and retail. BarbM
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Untill this year different palettes of gray was very hard to find . But this year I have found it in quite a few stores. Now to stock up for that stash!
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The solution dye your own fabric -I just started and it is really fun!
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Seems to me that pastels are always hard to find in the right shade.
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true black, most have a washed out look, or a gray look. I was told to ask for Amish black. Will try that next
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true white, in my opinion. I can find white on white or winter white. But white? It doesn't seem to exist. I finally found some online.
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I don't know about color, but I've been searching for novelty wrestling fabric for a while with no results. I have located some licensed fabric, but would rather have a novelty fabric.
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Purple probably. I did see some in the Colonial Poison Green and Cheddar set. My eyes are so bad it might have just been off blues. lol
I just looked some of them up and they are indeed named purples. http://www.fabric.com/quilting-fabri...n-cheddar.aspx |
One comment is that any color under store light is never true. In paint stores there is sometimes a display where you can hold chips under different lights and the difference is amazing. If you really want to be sure, view it under an OTT (full spectrum) light or find a way to look at it in the real daylight.
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went nuts for weeks trying to find a black/white stripe for a workshop. NOBODY had one. went to Joann's last Friday & low & behold! there it was! too late!
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A pretty real pink and a true deep purple.
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I just bought some hunter green at JoAnn's. I thought I was buying black! But I found a use for it already so am glad I bought it.
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The right shade of purple has been my latest nightmare. Purples are out there in droves but the one I needed to match looked like washed out pink next to 99.9% of the purples I found.
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the bright "neon" colors in quilting fabric seem impossible to find and I don't want to make kites!
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Originally Posted by quiltbugs
Hunter green. I can never find any nice dark green fabric.
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Red is the one for me, I was looking and looking and finally
found one that matched what I needed got it home started cutting to realize, it wasn't all cotton...well I used it anyway. I broke the cardinal rule...I hope it will be okay. |
Originally Posted by jdeery
Red is the one for me, I was looking and looking and finally
found one that matched what I needed got it home started cutting to realize, it wasn't all cotton...well I used it anyway. I broke the cardinal rule...I hope it will be okay. |
Like fabrics with black backgrounds, but the print has to be vivid, or Victorian.
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Yes I agree it is always the color or design you are looking for. As soon as you finish your project you can find it everywhere.
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