What's the issue with Purple?
#32
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Morganton, Ga
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Catrancher, If you can find a shop that carries Kona Bay or Seattle Bay you will probably find great WHITE ON WHITE fabric. They offer this with their tone on tone collection. I used it when dyeing cotton for quilters.
#33
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Location: Arizona
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For a long time, my favorite belt and shoes were purple. It is a surprisingly versatile color that works with almost everything. That said, I don't have nearly enough purple in my stash at present - must correct that ;-)
#34
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Join Date: May 2010
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Finding Purples....
I think the real true purples end up looking kinda DARK on the bolt.. its the medium and lighter purples that seem to show up on the shelves. When you put some blue with the purple it maybe shelved with the *purple blues* shelf, and when you put pink with it, it gets shelved with the fuchsia-purples and lavendar purples... i.e. when does it stop being blue and become purple ? or when does it stop being *off pink and become purple* ? Try looking in those overlapping areas, pull the nearest purple bolts off the shelf and take and put someplace else to compare, they get *more purple* sometimes depending on what they are next to.
Some newer fabrics are kept together for a while with a new *moda line* for instance... look at the shelves with newer lines, see if that line included something with a purple background and some coordinates colors that could be *purple* on that shelf.
If you do this, move the purple-blue bolts and purple-pink bolts, and *new lines that include purple* you may double or triple what you think that store has....
I think the real true purples end up looking kinda DARK on the bolt.. its the medium and lighter purples that seem to show up on the shelves. When you put some blue with the purple it maybe shelved with the *purple blues* shelf, and when you put pink with it, it gets shelved with the fuchsia-purples and lavendar purples... i.e. when does it stop being blue and become purple ? or when does it stop being *off pink and become purple* ? Try looking in those overlapping areas, pull the nearest purple bolts off the shelf and take and put someplace else to compare, they get *more purple* sometimes depending on what they are next to.
Some newer fabrics are kept together for a while with a new *moda line* for instance... look at the shelves with newer lines, see if that line included something with a purple background and some coordinates colors that could be *purple* on that shelf.
If you do this, move the purple-blue bolts and purple-pink bolts, and *new lines that include purple* you may double or triple what you think that store has....
#35
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont[Greenville]SC
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Originally Posted by stitchinbee
My favorite color is purple, however when shopping for fabric in a brick and mortar store, there will be several feet of every color of fabric under the sun, except for purple. Online shopping provides the same results as well. I am especially fond of blenders and tonals, I don't really care for batiks, and try to stay miles away from broadcloth. Hobby Lobby carries kona cloth, but not in purple. What is it with purple? Hmmm....
#36
I'm currently finished a Purple/lavendar quilt.... and while topping off the resto f the fabric needed for this project my local fabric store ( The Fabric Warehouse, in Willmar, MN) had a WHOLE table of nothing but purples and lavenders!!!! I tried to restrain myself... so I only ended up with 18 different patterns.... sigh.. but there were SOOOO many pretty ones......sigh
#40
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Location: Frankfort, Ky.
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Growing up my mother use to say "Only crazy people wear purple". For many years I wouldn't even think of buying anything purple. I finally decided I was going to use some in a quilt. Guess what my husband said "Only old people likes purple". To each his own. Have fun girls with all that purple.
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