Reds (unless very dull) and/or fuschia or any hot pink. Much too bright for me. Any time I see them, it's all my eyes can focus on.

I tend to avoid baby pink and pastels unless making a baby quilt. I get bolder with color the longer I quilt. Maybe it's an old-age thing. Next thing you know I'll be wearing a red hat and a purple dress!

In the past I avoided black, brown, and orange, but not anymore! Guess you say I have given up control over color selection. As the song goes: "all God's colors got a place in the choir, some sing low, some sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire and some just clap their hands..."

Teresa

Don't care for baby pastels, and not fond of yellow-green unless it's just a little bit and then only if it's a print with other colors to break it up. Same thing with peach.

I've not heard that song, Teresa! That's a corker!! lol

I don't use black as much anymore only because I can't see where I'm sewing on it. I'll use all colors but steer clear of stripes and plaids. I think it's that control thing....it bothers me when the lines don't go the same way or the stripes aren't even.

SharonG/FL

Sharon, I am the same with stripes or plaids. I have a friend that always gives me a hard time about not using plaids.(She's teasing.) It drives me crazy when the lines are not straight!
There aren't any colors that I won't use, just some I like more than others.
Linda OH

I think it is patterns more then color that I avoid but I am not very fond of pure colors but everything has it's place, even Kaffe Fassett whose fabric usually sends a chill up my back. Jayne

Well, I've always thought I hated orange, but several quilts lately have had orange in them, and I like them a lot! So I guess that means my new least favorite color is brown. It's depressing to me (unless it's in a tree or something).

Donna

I'm not crazy about pastels and still rarely use them. For a long time I never used white. Muslins and beige on beige were OK, but never white. But a few birthday blocks and lottos called for WOW - I had to ask what that was in the beginning! - and now I love it.

Jayne, I agree with you r.e. Fassett.. I feel like I need to put on my sunglasses. They make me so jumpy when I look at those fabrics and pattern books. And I hadn't thought about it, but yes, the only pure colors I like
are yellow if light and not glaring, and blues if darker than a true blue.

And along with Sharon, I generally avoid black, partially because of not being able to see well to sew on it, and also because we have 3 furball Cavaliers and their hair shows up on black even if just a single fiber!

But as with Kate, I used to not care for whites, using only naturals, but use a lot of white now.

I wonder if we could identify color preference trends over an aging timeline? The older I get, the "muddier" I like my colors, other than learning to like white! And MUCH to my surprise, I like natural and white together, especially in painting rooms.. In my 20's I'd have nearly gone into apoplexy over that combination.

Yea! That leaves more Fassett for those of us who can't get enought! LOL

Whew! I thought it was just my old eyes that had trouble sewing on black....it must be a "problem" with all black fabric since so many of us have that issue....LOL
I find that I just don't have any plaids and maybe only one or two stripes in my stash. Plaid is too "scrappy" for me. I am one of those who don't care for "scrappy" and but am working on it. Other than that, all colors work for me..purples and reds being my favorites, and I don't even belong to that hat society!

I'm with the pattern avoidance group. Mostly because I have a hard time putting them together. I really envy someone that can do that. For the longest time I had a hard time putting my dh's tie, shirt and suits together. Since he's asked my opinion more lately (he's red/green color blind), I've become more comfortable with matching patterns. I like color, just not too much all at once.

I like most colors.
Like many others, I find black difficult to work with but love to use it for backgrounds.

When I was organizing my scraps, I found that, in my regular use colors, I had a LOT of blues and greens but very few yellows, purples, oranges and reds.

I had some browns, deeper reds and purples and other fabrics that I think of as masculine or forest colors but not a lot of those.
I had some pastels and stripes and dots and juvenile prints in the baby/kids fabric drawer but not a lot.

I also had a lot of off-whites and neutrals.

Surprisingly, I had very little white although I had a lots of it last year. I guess I've used it.

I do like yellow sprinkled through scrap quilts.
I do want to try a quilt with lots of oranges. When the 'Pretty in Pink' and 'Black and White and _____ 'challenges were on, I kept thinking that 'Orange You Sweet'(LOL) would be a good challenge.
My favorite color is bright red but I don't have much bright red fabric....go figure.

It's nice to read about what each of you like/dislike to see how it matches my choices.

It's also nice to see how our color, design and pattern preferences change. I started out doing a few pastel baby quilts but then did mostly bright baby quilts. For big quilts I started with liking 3 or 4 matching colors but soon after that I liked scrap quilts with a constant color or total scrappy. They are now my favorite quilts to make.

I made one quilt that would be considered monochromatic and loved it so who knows what is next.

~Geraldine

I like almost every color, except I am not overly fond of purple, but I sew with it. There is a place for all colors especially used to accent another color.

But.....Dusty rose and Williamsburg Blue make me gag.

I like happy, bright, high contrast colors in my sewing.

I love black, but have gone black - blind recently as I am using it often. I read to use navy thread when sewing black to help you see it. I haven't tried it yet.

I need a bigger stash so I can be more color picky :)

I tend to avoid black because it's hard on these old eyes...also because I think it's hard to decorate around.

I like most colors too but as I look at my stash I see that purple and gray are the two colors I have very little of. However brown is not my favorite. I usually choose colors based on the person the quilt is being made for. Being in the Birthday Block I get to use colors I usually don't choice for myself.
Darlene

I love all colors, but they need to be pure tones - bright and vivid. I set them with mostly white or black. I love contrast.

Like Magothyrivergirl, dusty rose and that hideous blue will never make it into a quilt for me. I upholstered too many chairs in those colors to ever enjoy them again! But my Mom, however, got three - a bed quilt, and two lap quilts incorporating these colors. ONLY for her would I use those colors, and they are only accents.

I also made a depression block quilt in blues and tans, so not my colors, but perfect for my author/doctor friend. It looks just like his library of leather bound books.

I just finished a project using civil war reproduction fabrics where the warm colors have a brown undertone and the cool colors have a gray undertone. As I had to supplement from my stash I found that I do not have fabrics like these because I avoid them!
Karlene