Kehoeta

I'm with your co-workers... Nothing I would want to work with.

M.E.H.

I like all of them. :D

fraydknot12326

I like them all, too~! :D Love the pink/gray-silver combos .. would make a beautiful baby-girl quilt!

With a name like *Putting on the Ritz* they fill the bill *perfectly*~!! :thumbup:

Different strokes, different folks ... :lol:

ctub0126

I think sometimes people look at too big a swath of fabric. We're quilter's! Some of our pieces are less than 1" square. I think you could use all those fabrics and make a beautiful quilt (if not necessarily all together)! If you were dedicated to the baby/ nursery theme I'd probably add an appliqué or more "cute" print, but I think those fabrics are great!

DebsShelties

Some are ones that I may consider buying, others sorry I agree with your coworkers - eeewwwwww.

Kaz

Have to say I like them, don't know what exactly I would use them for but there are certainly some I would buy.

neeng

I like the checks, plaids and (a little less) the stripes. The ones on cream background from the first set are okay but really don't care for the others.

Antdebby1

Sorry, but I don't care for them.

sgardner

The first set would be the hardest to work with, but the rest all have their uses.

The trick with any fabric is to find a pattern that complements the color and style- a lot of those would lend itself to a fussy-cut or a stack-and-whack method, or a tessellation flower that where all the pieces were fussy-cut to have the same section on them.

They are not so bad, but they all have a theme- bland or plain, or rather, muted- you are missing the bright colors. Mix them with some yellow or eye-popping colors and you will create a contrast for the whole quilt. Again, it's all in how you use these fabrics.

If, in the end, you can't find uses for them, try Bonni hunter's scrap quilt methods- I bet most of those fabrics would produce a stunning quilt once cut up and arranged properly.

Other than the "words" prints, I can picture uses for every one of these fabrics.

sgardner

And that's it EXACTLY- many times we don't like a fabric because we can't see an end project in mind. I have worked with collections that came as a set (either 5 in squares or 10 inch squares) and there are always fabrics in there the scream "ugly!" to me- but several times I have been really pleasantly shocked at how well they play together in the final project.

Not something I would have bought based on the print/coloring alone, but looks good in the end.

I think of it as an orchestra- you may not care to hear a single instrument by itself, but in a concert with all the others and the proper arrangement of music, any instrument has a place. People go to hear the combination all put together, and so it is with quilts. I am learning not to judge individual fabrics so harshly, but rather learn how they should be used for a beautiful finish that others will drool over.

Only you will know that pieces of that fabric started life as an ugly duckling. LOL :-)