I love asking people about their favorite colors. I also love asking people if they have a color they hate.
Of course everyone's answer is different. But orange is often the color they like least.
Why is that? It's partially preference, and anyone who lived through the 70s might well be permanently put off burnt orange. I think it's simpler than that.
If you ask people what colors they like best they're likely to say either blue, or pink. Most people can wear some shade of either blue or pink and have done so their whole life. They're picking the colors they're used to wearing.
Not everyone can wear orange. Or should.
But we don't wear our quilts. We don't have to look good in them. Which means there's a world of color we've been avoiding, right outside our door.
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But it does wake up a quilt! Orange is sort of like orange juice on a gray day. Everything after that is so much better. A mix of red and yellow, two big show offs, orange has real punch.
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It's great as a straight shade.
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It's electric when it's in different tones.
There is a day in every quilters life, when they look at the colors their quilting with and say, " I'm bored. I want something different. Orange might just be that for you. Grab some OJ and brighten things up.
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