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    Old 06-03-2011, 07:36 PM
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    Hoppyfrog Walmart carries a real pretty light yellow I think its called Butter Cream it is a very nice fabric I use it an awful lot -I like the brite yellows too they perk up the bedroom when in a quilt The one thing I will miss the most once I am all the way moved is my kitchen wallpaper Its a med/lite yellow with blue flowers :-( I even found dishes to match
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    Old 06-03-2011, 07:58 PM
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    I love yellow and use it whenever I can.
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    Old 06-03-2011, 08:27 PM
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    When I was a kid yellow was my all time favourite colour...got my Mother to paint my room bright yellow and had an Indian bedspread with yellows, blacks, orange and browns (the day after I moved out my Mother repainted it pale magnolia). When I was 18, put down a deposit and got a mortgage....tiny little wooden worker's cottage opposite a factory, so run-down and decrepit. We worked hard to put it right. All the outside was faded and peeling took us weeks to sand it back...I painted it bright wattle yellow with brown trim. Our friends used to call it the "Banana House". Now I favour purple and of course my alltime favourite black....but still yellow makes me smile.
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    Old 06-03-2011, 08:33 PM
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    because a little bit of yellow goes a long way and good way to add sparkle to your quilt!!!!
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    Old 06-03-2011, 09:04 PM
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    Once, around the year 2000, I chanced to have a conversation with a manager for V.I.P in Massachusetts.
    He said that the color that they manufacture the least amount of is yellow.
    He also said that "you ladies all say you want yellow colored fabric - but you don't buy very much of it."
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    Old 06-03-2011, 09:16 PM
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    Originally Posted by Wonnie
    Originally Posted by ckcowl
    i don't know where you came up with that assumption???
    around here i see lots and lots of yellow...
    and in our little sewing/quilting group we have one lady who has been actively quilting for over 50 years---according to her- it's not a quilt if it doesn't have at least a piece of yellow somewhere---she really loves yellow in quilts- and makes FABULOUS ONES!
    so...
    maybe in your neighborhood they do not use yellow???
    typed yellow quilts into the search engine- over a hundred pages to look at....
    personally- not a yellow person- but have included yellows when they were needed- i'm not quite convinced that every quilt should have a little yellow :)
    Perhaps I should have phrased the question differently ....yes, I see a blotch of yellow here and there in quilts but if you look at the quilts overall it's almost never the dominating color. The reason I asked was because I did an old timey Butter and Egg quilt for my daughter, on point, with a white background and a single, repeated, patched block of yellow with small,white polka dots alternating with a white square in which I quilted flowers. The border , also, was white with quilted vine and leaves and it was so stunning it just made me wonder why I didn't see something of that nature in most of my many, many quilt books and magazines is all.
    You are right, the combination of yellow and white is wonderful.
    Has anyone noticed that yellow is sucessful when it is used with colors as light in hue, or lighter, than it is.

    When it is one of a group of pastels, it goes with almost them all.
    One interesting combination is yellow, peach and pink!
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    Old 06-03-2011, 09:26 PM
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    I love yellow in quilts too, but I find that when I wash yellow fabric it often looks cheap or too thin. I have one piece of yellow fabric that I am dying to find a special project for. It is just gorgeous.
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    Old 06-03-2011, 09:28 PM
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    My observation is that some of us (how many I have no idea) see a quilt in a magazine and because we are so impressed with it we try to duplicate it either by purchasing a kit or rummaging through our stash or trying to find similar fabric. I have seen really pretty two color quilt patterns in magazines that are red and white or blue and white and occasionally clear lavender and white but no yellow and white. Perhaps if the designers were to use more yellow the manufacturers would produce more yellow and people would buy it to duplicate the quilts in magazines. Just a thought....
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    Old 06-04-2011, 05:15 AM
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    Okay here is a blue and yellow bed scarf I designed in falls colors first but now love it in blue and yellow!Luann
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    Old 06-04-2011, 05:26 AM
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    Originally Posted by crafterrn1
    Okay here is a blue and yellow bed scarf I designed in falls colors first but now love it in blue and yellow!Luann
    That is absolutely stunning!!! I'm "yellow" with envy!! :lol:
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