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Let's hear your thoughts on B&W+color.
What's new?
Red, lime, or pink were the big thin for a while. Have you seen any new ideas you like?
What's your fav pattern for B&W+color?

I've seen yellow as a "new" color... 6 pointed stars would be traditional, but yet new in that colorway.

I love yellow with B&W as well...I think it's gorgeous!

It may not be "new" but my 7 year old granddaughter recently chose hot pink to go with black and white for her next quilt. Her 13 year old brother picked two shades of blue for his black and white last year. His was a Hunter Star with the star in blue. Clarissa's will be Bridge Creek Blossoms by Atkinsons http://store.atkinsondesigns.c...e_id=23&Item_ID=1029

• • • I'll stick with red. Sorry, just can't help it. I love the combination. Although, Royalboomer made a spectacular one with yellow. I think orange would work very well too. hmmmm, I might have to try that one (it's sort of red )

I saw a pretty one (BOM) done in black, white and purple.

I really like red with black & white but I think any of the really bright colors would make a statement.

I've seen new fabrics in the black, grey, white, & yellow color line. But I think I'd go for B&W and a nice light turquoise, kinda like a Tiffany blue.

I love to go to the hardware store & get paint chip samples, then come home & play with color combos. I even have a notebook where I keep color combo ideas. Some combos, I've gone to my stash, snipped pieces, and glued them into the book so I could see how the ideas looked in "real" fabric.

I love LIME! I can eat it with a spoon, lol!

Turquoise, saturated and rich.

I love black, white and red. Always will.

I like black, white, and gray. Lime sounds cool. I could seee aqua or teal being nice. SO many ideas!!

I go through color combo spurts...did a black, grey, brown stripes grouping for a year..1972. It was very elegant!!!

What else coming from me - I'll second that choice Kay-Lin - TURQUOISE! Deep and Rich!

What's your favorite pattern for a B&W+color?

ohhhhh - how about a B&W string quilt with a turquoise center strip?

Last year I did a Feathered Star (paper pieced) in B/W with just a touch of Lime--got a Red ribbon at our local quilt show with it !!!

My favorite quilt is a sampler. They're always interesting and I don't get bored making them. Saw a floral quilt in a book tonight but you had to make 225 of the same flower. I made 20 leaf blocks last weekend and the only thing that saved me was a huge variety of batiks.

My favorite two dresses in college were b, w, and yellow and the other wad b, w, and rich brown. My favorite b & w quilt was a Barbie quilt since it had hot pink like Barbie's car. I made scottie dog blocks with pink bows. Found a great 50s looking fanfic for the border.

black, white and a bright teal look good together, but red, bright purple or hot pink are most striking to me.

Freddy Moran does houses a lot. Lots of B&W with brilliant colors and patterns. She says red is her neutral. "Freddy's House" is one of her books. A collborative one she did with Gwen Marston has appiqued chickens,log cabins, stars,9 patch, monkeywrench.

I,of course would make pinwheels!

Check out the B & W and ? HGTV string quilts in my Webshots photo album. You will see my lime centers set out several different ways.

I am a black, white and red person. I have made a sampler with those colors but they are all nice.

Thanks!
Great ideas.

Well, I have come to the conclusion anything looks good with black and white...i love yellow...my fav is red, but I was at a ladies house today and saw orange with black and white and it was stunning...several shades of orange at that...go figure...lol

Love all the combo suggestions. Maybe this is a good way for me to try (gulp) orange.

Come on ladies. Let's see some samples!

Gina

Come on - a good orange is perfect perfect perfect .. what is a good orange you ask? One that says to you HEY THERE I'M ORANGE ... and then use it ... it's really almost a neutral you can use it with so many colors ...