Do you like all colors? I do. Sort of. I'm not a fan of orange except in October. I can't remember ever using it in a quilt...at least not on purpose. It has it's place, I guess, but you won't find it in my stash.
Then there's this. Is it hot pink on steroid? I see a lot of it on t-shirts and always have to gulp and look away.
And teal. I never liked teal but am more tolerant if it is used right. Small amounts. My sister-in-law loves it and uses it right. I can pick her color palette from across the store. "That's Joyce" I say as I see a color family. She pairs it with lush batiks in burgundy and deep, deep greens, touches of pink. Her quilts look like a glass of wine. You want to drink them in.
Elizabeth and I decided we don't much care for brown and yellow when used together in big bunches (except of course for sunflowers!) With other colors they're great.
And I don't care for red and black and white together - yet alone and with other colors they are necessary for creativity. I love black when it's used as white.
So, there you have it. Did you even care???
funny isn't it? I try to use all those colours, in different quilts of course, but the only one I'm not into is the hot pink....find it overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteI love orange too. I love orange and pink together. I must be part gypsie. Not so crazy about brown. Isn't color interesting?
ReplyDeleteMy 12-year-old son chose orange as his "Signature Color" back when he was 3 or 4. So he has a closet full of orange clothes (which makes him easy to spot in a crowd), and I have a healthy share of orange fabrics in my quilting stash. I love how the orange batiks look with blues and purples, like in this quilt I recently finished for his bed: http://cheekycognoscenti.blogspot.com/2012/09/sew-and-tell-friday-drunken-dragons-bed.html
ReplyDeleteOf course, if my son had it his way, the WHOLE THING would have been orange, just orange and black like Halloween! ;-)