hazeljane

Many many 30's quilts were made with green (kind of jadeite green) or bubblegum pink or yellow or blue or lavender as the solid. Look at the colors in Moda's 30's solids and you will get an idea. A saturated pastel is ideal.

scraphq

Our early quilts were made with unbleached muslin. Bleached muslin was more expensive than unbleached and couldn't affford the "nicer" stuff!

Lady Crafter

Unbleached muslin or (light) tea-dyed white. Anything but the stark pure white.

joyce blint

Definitely unbleached muslin. It just seems to "fit" with the older fabrics.

trolleystation

Cream or unbleached muslin.

ecmoore

The one I have from the '30's used an almost mint-chocolate-chip iced cream green colour. It's also the only colour on the quilt that didn't end up fading...

hikingquilter

I have an Irish Chain in progress using 30's prints and a soft yellow solid. It's looking good!

Marilynsue

I think you could use any of the light 30's solid fabrics.

buddy'smom

Tea dyed muslin looks great as well.

Willa

thinking same thing