What Colors Are You Looking For in 2012?
 

I have been busy placing orders for my shop and would love to hear what quilters are looking for in color, designer/manufacturer ect. Brights, florals, black and white, etc ???? Henry Glass, Red Rooster etc ????
Your help is appreciated:)

Thanks, Jenni
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It's very hard to find a good selection of white on white or cream on cream.

Thank you for your help:)

I will be focusing more on solids and blenders - I know not much help am I .....

I want to do some white, black and red this year.

You all are helpful, please keep em' coming:)

Your welcome. I know it's not very exciting, but it is one of the first things I look for wherever I go. I like to keep a good collection on hand. oops, I think I put this post on the wrong spot. I was the one who mentioned white on white ;-)

I'm going to be looking for some darker, but not dark, primary colors. I have some butterscotch that I want to pair with some "country" colors for some antique classic look quilts. I'm not too crazy about the real wild brights with big patterns. Hope this helps.

All opinions count:)

Hi there- Wishing you all the best with your shop - hope you will be selling online too. Either way I am always keeping my eye open for white on white or beige on white, etc. Also traditional patterns as well as new ones. I like it when I go into a shop it has changed with the seasons ! Like spring to summer to fall to winter with quilts that follow. It doesn't have to be new fabrics because we all have some stash but new is good too. Carrying things that blend from one season to another would be beneficial to you for sales reasons. I love thirties too. Solids and blenders too. Notions that you can vouch for. What is tried and true sells believe me I take your word for it. Love Red Rooster and Thimbleberrries !
Where did you get the name and is there a logo with a Quilted Cow ? I am a dairy girl !

I can never find greys and browns that is what I would look for.

For some reason I'm just now getting interested in 30's fabrics. And I may try to get some civil war fabrics for a DJ. But batiks are always popular. And like the others said, be sure to keep a good selection of neutrals, and not just WOW.

You can't go wrong with brights, blenders, batiks, and stonehenge fabrics. But there are just as many quilters that still love the country colors.

Variety of yellows. Yellows are so hard to find.

I WANT some PASTELS...nice soft colors....peaches especially !!!

I was just thinking this morning that I've never made a purple quilt, yet purple is my favourite colour. May have to remedy that next year...

Yellows. Pretty yellows bright and happy.

Are you a new shop? Just curious.
sandy

Batiks, white on white, cream on cream.

I love the marbles, they are great for back grounds, sashings and borders and applique.

I always look for greys and golds. They seem to be in a minority in my area.

I agree...good quality white on white are my 'always looking for' fabrics. Also blenders.

Are you going to be selling online? If you are, then I'd appreciate knowing your website address.

I would agree with the white on white, creams, off-whites. I also keep my eye open for shades of grey. Subtle designs, perhaps grey on grey designs. Oh yes, nice yellows too!
Maureen

Good to know you have a shop...hope you will have on line services. You're a little far away for my daily/weekly needs. I like the suggestions so far. I love it when fabrics are in groups. I made a beautiful quilt which I sold earlier this year from a grouping I had purchased a few years ago..."Vienna Nights"...I think it was Moda, but not sure. Searched all over for more, but to no avail....anyway it was small prints in blacks, deep reds, beige, and a little light turquoise thrown into some of the prints. The grouping had about 8 differnt pieces of coordinating fabrics...this is what I really like.
I will ask you one question tho...I purchased a piece of "cutesy" Christmas fabric but could only find 2 yards of it. Would like to have 1-2 more yards. It's "coyote choir" by Alexander Henry. I have tried to google it, but no success. If you come across it, could you let me know?
Good luck with your shop and I'll be watching for the web site.

Earthy tones (for 'Primitive" type wall hangings) - I espec love the Kansas Troubles line
Blues soft yellows soft tans
batiks
Civil War - (have a Dear Jane attempt planned for 2012,2013,2014........)

:)

Jenni- A few weeks ago there was a post on here about some new upcoming fabric called something like BFF line or something like that. There were photos and I thought it was just fabulous. I don't live near your shop but I think it will be a popular line with the people that I know. Good luck.

oh, I second this!

I am always searching for burgandies that do not have ANY brown in their color - a true burgandy. Almost all of the ones I find lean toward brown or purple. I would buy solids, blenders, prints - I'm desperate.

White on white, cream on cream, batiks, marbled blenders, true golds, greens that have more blue than yellow, silvers and greys have been most difficult for me to find lately.

This isn't a color, but for me border fabrics hard to find--the kind you might use for a 60 degree table runner or in a quilt border.

I agree - white on white and cream on cream are hard to find.

Turquoise and brown are the colors that I am drawn to.

Here is a link to the BFF (Best Friends Forever) fabrics... they are not coming until May (if they are on time) but we have them available for pre-order now.

http://www.favoritefabric.com/cgi/co...hs_studio.html

They're very different than anything else I have ever seen... and the sales rep said that they were very well-received at Quilt Market last fall.

Wilmington Prints, South Sea Imports, RJR, and Timeless Treasures are the companies that seem to be making the most border prints these days.

http://www.favoritefabric.com/cgi/co...r_stripes.html

I've always wanted to make one of those runners - I even have the ruler - but somehow I just never got around to trying it out!

What a helpful tip. Thanks!

I am really loving the patriotic colors and patterns and I am really loving the civil war colors and patterns - but I cannot pass up any moda pre-cut (maybe a few) - I love how the pre-cuts are coordinated and when I make quilts with them - I always get compliments about how well the colors worked (my secret). Good luck and if you are online let us know.

true red
purple
brights
none feminine/gender neutral
tone on tone/blenders
pretty or fun lines of fabric

I agree a good collection of white on white or off white is always much needed. I like brights, batiks including really light ones and very dark ones. Samples of quilts made with the fabric's always create a really good mood in a shop, and add inspiration to the customers.

I agree, I recently went to 4 shops looking for the right whitish cream, none of them really had it. Oh and any time I see that nice soft yellow I buys yards and yards of it.

I agree I have been looking for peach florals for a year. Not orange , not pink... Where's the peach?
And as others have said , tone on tone white , and natural .