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.

Peach, pale yellow, true reds and light reds are all shades I've had trouble finding.

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.

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.

I wanted peach for a quilt for my grandmother, and it was VERY hard to find anything. I ended up using a cotton/poly that was close to the shade I wanted, and a flannel for the back that was just a little too orange.

Around here gray is almost impossible to find. needed it 2 different times and couldnt find.

great idea

I have a terrible time with yellows. Not enough varieties out there. All I find is light or dark, nothing in between.

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

LOL me either and when I want a certain color I don't settle for nothing but that color or I end up not liking the whole quilt no matter how nice it turns out.

Check and ask at Mary Jo's in Gastonia,Nc. She has a site that you can ask about any color,etc. and they will answer back. They ship too. This place is huge and has everything. It is the place I find anything and everything. Mary Jo is always there too. She has pix too, on her site. It is dangerous for me when I go. You need to see it. ENJOY!!

I'm looking for greys too and there just isn't a lot to be found. Lots of black and whites that look grey but not actual greys. Trying to find online is hard. You get blue or green that look grey in the photo.

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.

Was at Fabric Depot today and the salesclerk told us that purple is the most popular color in Oregon. We decided it must be because we have so many gray days. So, we have all the bolts here! :-)

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.

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:

Exactly!

:?

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!

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.

I find Marshall's in Batesville, Ar carries a good range of colors. They wholesale and retail. BarbM

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!

The solution dye your own fabric -I just started and it is really fun!

Seems to me that pastels are always hard to find in the right shade.

true black, most have a washed out look, or a gray look. I was told to ask for Amish black. Will try that next

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.

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.

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.

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!

A pretty real pink and a true deep purple.

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.

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.

the bright "neon" colors in quilting fabric seem impossible to find and I don't want to make kites!

I agree on this. Also, this applies to both blues and greens -- I find that blending blues or greens is most difficult because one blue may have too much green or too much red in it; same with greens -- one green may have too much (or not enough) yellow, blue or brown. Does all this mumbo-jumbo make any sense?

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.

Try sewing a simple block using the fabrics. Steam press the gazoobas out of it. If the part-cotton one does OK, it'll be fine. I once pieced something using cottons and blends. When I gave the really serious steam press to the piece, one of the pieces really drew up (perhaps melted a bit). Lesson learned.

Like fabrics with black backgrounds, but the print has to be vivid, or Victorian.

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.