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mario1360 08-12-2016 10:07 AM

no beige, no browns....love bright colors, love bright prints on a crisp white background....

KarenK 08-12-2016 11:24 AM

Gray and pink.

crideout 08-12-2016 03:01 PM

I have very little purple

leaha 08-12-2016 03:09 PM

I buy black by the bolt, and several bolts of PFD fabric for dying, do not care for red in most of my quilts unless it is just a red and white quilt, can't think of any other colors I do not have, and if I don't have and need it I just go to my play house and dye it, LOL

Battle Axe 08-13-2016 02:26 AM

MSQC had a Coffee colored charm pack or layer cake. I wish I would have bought it when it was the daily deal. But I'm dealing with financial reality right now.

mhollifiel 08-13-2016 02:37 AM


Originally Posted by TeresaA (Post 7625515)
I had colors missing from my stash (mostly pink). I decided that i should add some of them to my stash to "round it out." What I discovered is that I don't use these hole fixers. So I have a bunch of fabrics now that I will likely donate someday in the not too distant future. I'd rather donate them as quilts, but I don't see myself ever finding a place for them.

So learn from me. If you think the "holes" in your stash need to be fixed, think twice about the reason the holes exist at all.

LOL! TeresaA, you prove we are all wonderfully different! I noticed that I had no oranges and quickly set to work rectifying that. Now I am having to replenish orange all the time because I fell in love with it and kept using it in everything!
I have used four bolts of Kona black in 4 years and never used it for backing! Now you are all probably thinking I am doing lots of Halloween quilts. In fact, I haven't made a single one.

Sandygirl 08-13-2016 02:43 AM

I don't really "stash". I buy as wanted/needed. Project specific.

sandy

Reba'squilts 08-13-2016 03:25 AM

I guess when I get home from "up north" I will have to check. Have been making blocks out of a bag of "leftovers"while in our RV. Need to check and see if something will tie them together. I usually have to buy whites.

lindaschipper 08-13-2016 03:43 AM

I have fat quarters in ever shade under the sun....way too many fat quarters! Need to find good homes for some of them before they secretly start to multiply. No joke here!!

maryfrang 08-13-2016 04:54 AM

It is strange, I think I have every color. Then I go to make something and guess what? The color I need is missing. What will I do. I think when I moved I got rid of too much of my stash. (My husband does not think so.) I guess I need something. I know I have loads of reds, greens, blues, etc. but missing what I need.

Wanabee Quiltin 08-13-2016 05:13 AM

A few FQ's of gray and that's it. Tons of yellow, pink, green and blues, but very little gray. Started my orange, purple and turquoise last year and it's going good. Even have aqua now, but the grays are lagging behind. Not my favorite color at all. Can't wear it ever, so I guess I ignore it.

carolynjo 08-13-2016 05:16 AM

I don't have yellow or gray.

coopah 08-13-2016 06:08 AM

Gray, green, brown

GailG 08-13-2016 06:10 AM


Originally Posted by lots2do (Post 7625136)
I don't believe I have any lime green (we used to call it poison green back in the day and I had a raincoat that was that color).

In the fifties, we called it chartreuse.

Snooze2978 08-13-2016 06:21 AM

Grays and yellows are small in my stash, some blacks too. I tend to keep my collections together so could have more of one of those colors that I don't realize. Plus some of my stash is on bolts so again may have more than I realize.

quiltybarb 08-13-2016 06:31 AM

While looking for a small piece of pink, I realize that I didn't have one piece of any kind of pink....maybe I just hv to buy some....

Joanie2 08-13-2016 06:53 AM

I used to have tons of blue fabrics but now I have only small pieces for scrap blocks. Also not a lot of pinks and almost no gray tones. I've re-done my stash from keeping all the same colors together to groupings of fabrics that play well together. I figure that way when I see a pattern I would like to try I have a good head start and hopefully will not buy as much.

AlvaStitcher 08-13-2016 07:44 AM

I have a pretty good quantity of most colors but almost all are prints. Need solids in all colors. Even though I have a good selection I still find the need to shop for fabric to round out the pattern requirements. LOL

Fizzle 08-13-2016 08:08 AM

Solids here also....

Tudey 08-13-2016 09:39 AM

I keep as little purple as I possibly can, because I do not like purple. I have an abundance of nearly every other color, with a strong emphasis on yellows, oranges, and other autumnal colors.

SharonTheriault 08-13-2016 09:47 AM

Don't have much gray or purple, and no orange. Just the other day I was thinking about going stash shopping to add some other colors. Then I thought about it again and ended up staying home. ;-)

Chester the bunny 08-13-2016 04:45 PM

I was one to never pass up a novelty print. That's what I have the most of in my stash. Always short of creamy, buttery, vanilla pudding backgrounds.

mamagrande 08-13-2016 05:53 PM

I have most colors in prints and florals but am short on blenders in brown, gray, orange, lime, blue and I'm sure that there are others. It feels that when I am putting something together I am always short on a color.

Mousie 08-13-2016 07:13 PM

you can't go to the end of the internet but I think I may have gone to the
end of the rainbow :)

ShirlR 08-13-2016 08:34 PM

Browns, tans and orange. I like those colors, but yet I don't seem to buy them, except for a specific project. I'm not a big fan of pastels or red.

Diane C. 08-14-2016 08:45 AM

missing colors
 
I have no grays. Diane C.

mom-6 08-14-2016 12:24 PM

I'm not missing any colors completely but some have lots more than others. Pink is the one I have the least of. Several of my colors have predominantly focus fabrics. For the past year or so I've been trying to get more blender fabrics so I can actually make something with what I have. Lol!

kwiltkrazy 08-31-2016 12:23 PM

grey, yellow and brown

ghostrider 08-31-2016 01:58 PM

I have no pink, but it's not 'missing' from my stash any more than okra and liver are 'missing' from my pantry. I'm quite happy living without any of them.

MadQuilter 08-31-2016 03:46 PM

Not a lot of grey in my stash.

MadQuilter 08-31-2016 03:47 PM


Originally Posted by ghostrider (Post 7641632)
I have no pink, but it's not 'missing' from my stash any more than okra and liver are 'missing' from my pantry. I'm quite happy living without any of them.

LOL, I used to feel the same way about ocra and recently I have started using it and ......I actually like it. Go figure.

QuiltnLady1 08-31-2016 08:00 PM

I have every color, but orange, brown and gray are the ones I have the least of. My orange and brown are in my fall stash and the grays just snuck in (mainly as silver).

Notwendy 09-01-2016 07:11 AM

I lack batiks & tone on tone fabrics. However, I don't miss them much as I find most to be muddy looking to me. I prefer solids to blends unless it is something with a slight pattern of color on white such as Net by Dear Stella(http://www.pinkcastlefabrics.com/col...ts/net-in-mint) or Timeless Treasures Hatch or Fun basics (http://www.abcsofquilting.com/shop/Q...t-x3602015.htm).

I don't have many pastels or Civil War color ways in my stash and don't plan on adding any.

As I've mentioned previously, I am a Magpie for large, bright floral or graphic prints. I have an over abundance of those, generally in FQs - they are like crack! I've cut way back on the FQ collecting and am trying to stay in the 1/2 yard range as the smallest cut to stash.

madamekelly 09-01-2016 10:00 AM


Originally Posted by MadQuilter (Post 7641681)
Not a lot of grey in my stash.

The only gray I have is an iridescent for fairy wings, none in my stash at all.

elly66 09-02-2016 03:49 AM

yellow and orange

ka9sdn 09-02-2016 04:05 AM

My basic colors are getting low. Will take advantage of JoAnns sale.

luana 09-02-2016 04:08 AM


Originally Posted by Jeanne S (Post 7625207)
Not much orange or pink, have just about everything else I think!!

Me too! These two colors don't play well with the rest of my stash.

justflyingin 09-02-2016 06:06 AM

I have very little gray. I'd love to have more. And not much orange, but I'm okay with that.

Wonnie 09-02-2016 07:19 AM

Very little black mainly because it's hard for me to see my stitching...but I do like it with white or yellow.

Very little red because I don't prewash and I'm afraid of bleeding.

Would have a lot more gray except the gray I prefer (think the men's early 1950's grey flannel suits...kind of a very pale gray) simply is never available.

Minimal orange because the color is just too intense for me.

Never ever had pink "anything" until I started quilting and now one of my favorite colors....still building stash!

So, as you can tell, my stash is heaviest in greens, whites, yellows, pinks, corals, light bright turquoise.

Tothill 09-02-2016 01:51 PM


Originally Posted by Theodora (Post 7625150)
Pink, can't stand it!

I am with you Theodora. I only buy pink for specific projects, but do not stash it at all.


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