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09-07-2011, 09:54 AM

#81

sewbizgirl

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Originally Posted by ptquilts

or would you prefer this quilt kit in different colors

I don't know, olive green and purple? I would love to see it in shades of blue. I don't know anyone whose bedroom is done in shades of olive green and purple.

I was looking through the new Keepsake catalog and noticed a lot of quilt kits, etc in colors that make me go bleh....

Am I being oldfashioned? Are these the new modern colors? I'm not even going to mention the price...

Actually, as I look at it I see primarily blue and white. I think it would look lovely in a blue room. It wouldn't take much fabric to replace the olive green with something else... like maybe lime?

09-07-2011, 10:42 AM

#82

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I'd have to get rid of the purples-I like the olive green but I 'd only make that quilt if it was a special request from some one in the family

09-07-2011, 10:48 AM

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No, I agree that the colors are so 60's, and while I was a young (I specify young) woman I wore some of those colors (wish someone had warned me about how I looked in that orange raincoat - I shudder to think about it now), but I've had enough olive green to last me a lifetime. I've seen the price, would never pay it. The pattern isn't bad, but the colors - the designer definitely missed the boat on those.

09-07-2011, 10:51 AM

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I like it! Sure I wouldn't pay the catalog price.

09-07-2011, 11:03 AM

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Sadiemae

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The more I look at it, the more I just don't like the blue.

09-07-2011, 11:19 AM

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Personally I think the white is too stark and the blue too pale with that dark olive green. I would replace the white with maybe a white on cream and the blue with darker purples. Once you replace those two then the dark green will lay back like it's supposed to.

09-07-2011, 12:30 PM

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I really like it

09-07-2011, 12:37 PM

#88

ShabbyTabby

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I love purple but olive green just doesn't do it for me.

09-07-2011, 01:02 PM

#89

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I don't like the green in there and I wouldn't do that particular pattern anyway ... to fussy for me.

09-07-2011, 01:19 PM

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ree-nee

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i have been to a home with Easter egg purple walls and the very green color you mentioned on the carpet. The room was georgeous. Needless to say my room is blue and I agree on the bleh