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What is Your Favorite "Wierdo" Color to Use in a Quilt?

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Old 01-27-2016, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Sewnoma View Post
You mean something like this?

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Well, somewhere I have a picture of the top all finished...it's been just a top for about a year now!

I called this the "ugly quilt" for quite awhile but it grew on me over time.
Yes, with maybe just a touch more yellow in it. I'm thinking of the colors of a boy scout uniform. I think it looks great in a modern quilt, paired up with colors such as tomato, yellow, deep blue, aqua. Yours is very pretty.

(I must have been in "puppy love" with a boy scout in my youth...LOL.)

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Old 01-27-2016, 05:34 AM
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Mustard yellow....blues....greens...reds....sometimes even a good rich brown!!
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Old 01-27-2016, 08:46 AM
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I can see why but it is beautiful anyway!
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Old 01-27-2016, 09:07 AM
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I have never liked orange. A friend bought me some precuts in orange because she said that sometimes you just need to add a bit and she knew I would not want to buy orange fabric. Sure enough, I was making a baby quilt for family and the fabric they wanted was a fish fabric. It was lots of blues and the fish had orange in them. When I was planning the layout, I realized I needed to add orange to the blocks! It turned out to be one of my favorite baby quilts. He just turned one and carries it with him everywhere!
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Old 01-27-2016, 09:49 AM
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It might be outside your comfort zone, but it's beautiful, I especially like your purple/blue batik print.
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Old 01-27-2016, 10:12 AM
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I never used to like bolder colors like lime green, bright purple, or orange. But since I have begun quilting, they always add some pop to a quilt. Especially if they are scrappy ones. Am working on one now that seems to be getting a lot of those colors in it.
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Old 01-27-2016, 10:13 AM
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For ME (this is just my PERSONAL taste) it would have to be brown
and olive/drab greens.

Now don't go throwing a rotten tomato at me. But brown is my #1
worst color, it is the one color that I truly dread using for ANYTHING.
As for the olive/drab green I really only use that color for something
I might make for my hubs.

In fact I don't own any clothing that is brown.

But give me ANY color besides those two and I will more than likely
love using them.
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Old 01-27-2016, 10:18 AM
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Lime green is not my favorite shade of green, but for this quilt, it was the best choice. My favorite color is what I call ice green. I have never found it or the blackberry shade I have sought for years.
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Old 01-27-2016, 12:53 PM
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I used so much orange one year that I was told by friends and family that walking into my sewing room that it reminded them of orange popsicle.
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Old 01-27-2016, 03:15 PM
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To patty purple: I love your quilt! The contrast is beautiful!

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