I like EVERYTHING!! If I make an item for myself i choose my style but if I am making an item for someone else I try to please them! i decorate my house country style and so my quilts have that same flavor. I prefer bold colors to pastels and I only use beiges and grays etc for backgrounds. One of my latest quilting endeavors is brilliant butterflies on black I call Dancing in the dark!!

bright colors

Definitely Suttle Sally. I love the bold colors but that's just not me.

I'm a Bold Betty!!! right nor I am making a quilt for one of my sisters. She picked the collection and I'm soooooooooooooo bored with them. Can't wait to finish it.

Everything! I have quilts that are modern fabrics, 30's fabrics a full gamut.

Please excuse double post. :oops:

I am curious as to whether you are a blond or a brunette?.Most brunettes like jewel tones because they look their best when dressed in those colors so they tend to choose them when quilting.Years ago they talked about dressing in colors depending on skin tones and they were listed as spring winter summer and fall.I think people choose fabric in colors that they feel comfortable wearing.I am jewel tones all the way.

I love them all, but tend to like the bright just a little bit more. Sometimes, there are color combos I would NEVER think of, but when I see them in someone's quilt, I really like them and put them on my list to try. I love trying new combos of colors.

I love bright colors. So I'm a Bold Betty.

Pat75 I am a natural red head. I don't look good in darker colors or pastels; the jewel tones look great on me.

I'm a Bold Betty.

I seem to gravitate to the darker colors and tones. I love the black and pink flower prints, the darker Asian prints and shades of brown and cranberry. I do, however, have some soft pinks and greens in my stash and just finished a baby quilt top that is red, white and blue. A lot depends on who I making the quilt for as I like to be sure they will go with their colors in their house.

The brighter, the better but I do make all kinds.

My style is definitely eclectic....can't say there is a colour that I really don't like. I also like texture, velvets, corduroys, silks and satins. Someone mentioned dressing according to your colours....years ago I had mine done...I was told I was a winter, I have light eyes/light/sallow skin tone and was naturally very dark haired. I tend to wear a lot of black and brown, and team it with greens, orange or the odd bright. I love red, but never wear it now as it highlights the "butterfly rash" courtesy of my friend Lupus.

I would say that I am a "Vibrant Verna." I love bright colors!!!!
VernaL

I sort of do things according to what my mood is, but much like you, I admire what others have done and their work is just as important as my own but that doesn't mean I would do the same thing as they did.
I enjoy being a bit different and sometime way different.

I'd say I go more traditional and only pop when making something for someone who prefers that. Do try to go outside the box on occasion though. lol.

Hmmm interesting thought! I'm a blonde with just a hint of red, and my skin has yellow undertones so I definitely don't look good in bright colors! Tans, browns, olive greens, creams, earthy colors are what look best on me. And I like to wear solids more than prints because I can accessorize them or dress them up in more ways, and match them with more items in my wardrobe.

I also agree about making quilts for others so THEY would like it! I would make a quilt for my mother or sister completely differently from one I would make for myself! And I'm making one for my husband right now, but I tell you what it was the biggest pain in the rear coming up with a pattern and color scheme that he would like and that I could live with on our bed! :mrgreen:

I don't have a style because I like them all.

Im somewhere in the middle....depends on pattern etc

My first preference is for brights, but depends on what is called for if I'm making something to give away.

I am all over the color spectrum. However during the long dreary days of winter in MN I find myself focused on the bright colors.

What I like isn't necessarily what others would like, which I sometimes have a hard time getting into my head when I make quilts for others (LOL). I was showing my daughter a quilt that I was going to do double sided, and come to find out during her visit, she would never have showed the second side (which was a Dresden Plate) but loved the other side - with a request to change one color in the sashing. I didn't know she didn't care for that color until then and was glad she had a choice. Made me stop and think that before I make a quilt for someone else in the family - I need to be more aware of their color choices (not mine). Anolther good example was I had made a quilt for my brother and his wife and it wasn't until several months later that I found out that I just "lucked" into the right colors for them!

Interesting, I just ran through my stash in my mind, and my stash is bold, jewel, dark, solid colors. No prints. The only print I have is a pink/green print that I have for sashing a quilt that is made of solid pink flowers and solid green leaves appliqued. (I have one other wip that I inherited with some cut-out flowers that are prints, but I don't think that really counts). My favorite thing, though, is large expanses of solid colors with beautiful quilting patterns.

My mother, on the other hand, loved bright, loud, awful color combinations all together in quilts, clothes, afghans. We all used to lovingly tease her about it. She gave me an afghan that I keep in my car. I told her that if my car ever broke down beside the road, I could just spread the afghan across the hood and flag down low-flying airplanes. :)

Usually, I'm a Rich Rita, which implies deeper values - neither subtle nor bold. On occasion, I'm Whacky Wanda which means, anything goes.

I tend towards contrast.... always find myself short of lights To each his own..... that's what makes the world go round