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:

For awhile I could find a lot of purple, but right now it is hard to find.

Colors go in and out of style regularly. For a long time it was impossible to find yellows. That's one reason why quilters build a "stash".

Usually the color I need to finish off an almost complete quilt.

I think the raspberries and the orchids are the hardest to find, personally. When i like something, I really want a very distinctive shade of it.
I am getting better at finding things online, but you can only tell to a degree. I'm not picky, I just care a lot, lol! :XD:

Every year the palette changes... I have been collecting a particular shade of turquoise and lavendar for 4 years now... It will take me 25 years to get what I need at this rate :roll: :lol::lol: :D:D:D

Whatever color you really need!! Or that's the case for me.

Reds are hard to find. There are lots of reds but never in the shade I want/need at the time.

Amen to that :thumbup:

I have been looking for peach. All I find is either too yellow or too prange or too pink

I find that yellow/black or gold/black combo's are hard to find.

Grey and brown are almost impossible to find around here.

Hunter green. I can never find any nice dark green fabric.

Pinks to purples, and in between. Usually the ones you are looking for~

The one I need, of course!

I had that same problem while looking for some peach.

For me, it has been tone on tone black. I can find blacks that read gray, or blue/black or green/black but just not plain dark black. I can easily find black and white prints but they have way too much white to use as a background. I even find it difficult to get plain solid black. Can you tell yet that I need black?

Have you tried Kona Cotton's Amish Black?

True too many reds are orange and odly enough many people seem to like only the true red and not the orange reds.

reds are the hardest to match up, for sure!

It seems the color I need is the one I cannot find!

Me too. I just bought a Laurel Burch fabric that is black, grey and some kind of funky reddish-rust-cranberry looking thing. I hope I can match it. I'm glad I didn't order the red on line. It would never have gone. Good luck with your chase!

Yup, that's me!! :D

Definately the one I need!

I needed a grey for a cat quilt. For some reason it was hard to find the right shade of solid grey!

Come to St. Paul. There is purple all over the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gold too!!!!!! I started this seriously - I don't use much purple and I guess other Minnesota quilters may not either, but the Vikings are Purple and Gold and it just fell together. Go Vikes!!!!! Don't look for Moss here! Edie

Glad to know I'm not the only one that has probs finding certain shades! Blues.....lots of blues are in every shop. Of course, that's a color I don't need.Have you noticed how hard it is to fine nice TOT or WOW ?

Rose is a tough one. Blue is considered to be the hardest color to match. Blue is somewhat unforgiving --if you don't get the right blue, you can tell. Other colors will blend more.

I think that is so funny! I have been looking for Rose colored fabrics too. Very hard to find a real rosey red.

Peach...it was hard to find a few years ago and still is.

I went looking for Rose, also, and couldn't find it. Also wanted Peach - light orange was all I could find. It's hard to be a quilter.

Whatever color I really need is what is hardest to find. When I'm just browsing, lots of fabrics look great, but when I have a very specific need, nowhere to be found :(

Red is traditionally a hard color to match...so always buy enough when you are doing something red.

I wonder if the manufacturers of the ink for dying are color blind or that the person dying the fabric doesn't leave it in the bath for the right amount of time. I find it very hard to match red. Because of the different shades, when I find the red I like, I buy the whole bolt. Same goes for green. Whoever heard of Kelly Green looking like olive. Guess I'm a little bit irish. I like the real thing. St. Patrick would be shocked that his Kelly Green is not carried out a true Kelly Green.

I wanted to make a king sized quilt for someone special. Her color is navy blue, so I decided to make a blue- work quilt. I had such a hard time finding navy and white material. There was alot of navy with other colors in it. But I finally did find it and in the process of putting it together.

I once made a quilt that used 22 shades of graduated pinks -- I had to buy over 30 pieces to get the right pink -- there are blue, yellow, beige and all sorts of off shades. And I don't even like pink!!! But the lady had been wonderful when my DH was terminally ill.

I did a "Mississippi" quilt, a shape of the state in fabric pretaining to something about Mississippi, for example, Elvis, cotton, crawfish, and the three Universities. The one hardest to find was USM, which happens to be 5 miles from my house so you would think the local fabric/quilt shops would have it, NO. I had to buy it online

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.

Hi!! New here. Been lurking for a while. Anyway. If I really need a matching color (Quilt for son, Lavender) I finally ended up dying the fabric for the color I needed.
And Hello to all the other quilters here. I'll try to get pic up as soon as I figure out how. LOL

I have 66 different purples on my site, 2 peaches (yes they are hard to find), Black on Black tone that is 108" wide, some grays that are under the "black" color. www.beautifulquiltfabric.com