I must really be out of touch with the real world....hadn't the foggiest notion that Emerald was the big color this year. Don't even remember it in the stores or the quilt shop I frequent. The marketing of it went right over my head! I like the orchid, but it would probably take a special color palette to get me to use it in a quilt. Had the lavender bedroom when I was 7, and my mother said it looked like the Easter Bunny lived there!