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Help me find fabrics in these colours

(For Polly: I found another way to show the colours! So I'm reposting my question from the FB group)

OK, I'll be sewing a bit for a baby that is about to enter my family (no, not my own!). The quilt I will totally decide everything myself - gotta keep some control :-)

However, I was asked (and have agreed) to also sew a bit for the room, and these are the kind of colours that they have asked for (sorry for the long links):

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And for the broader palette (although they asked for "not overly bright"):

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Not my usual colours and so there seems to be nothing in my stash (how that can be with boxes and boxes of fabric, I don't understand, but there we are).

As I don't have any large LQS anywhere near, I'll probably end up shopping online for this lot. To make sure that things go together (more or less), I'd be extremely happy with a line. I'd really like one small scale pattern (with animals or something, not abstract) for bigger pieces, and then combine with a bunch of FQ for some appliques or background for appliques or something.

So help me out: what kind of fabric am I looking for? Will 30's kind of work? On the FB group there was a suggestion for batiks, but I think for this, I'd prefer the softer handle of regular cotton.

Thanks - I know you guys can come up with something! (Not discounting the advice I got the FB group, mind.)

Hanne in DK

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Hanne in DK
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Roberta

I l o v e Makower fabrics and usually find that whatever I have chosen from LQSs is Makower! Actually I usually get it by mail order from The Tabbycat in the UK as if I order by midday it comes the next morning which tends to be quicker than finding the time to drive to the nearest LQS (15 miles) and then finding they haven't got what I want and then going to the other shop about 25 miles away in the opposite direction. Tabbycat seems to carry the full range of Spraytime (mottled solid) and the childrens range is pretty good too, as is the animal range and the seaside one. What I like about Makower is that whatever the colour it always seems to blend well with the others - don't know how they do that, it washes well and I have never had a run. It just feels good quality.

I seem to have rambled a bit!

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

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Sally Swindells

Gosh, those colors are so popular now that there's lots available in the shops.

Marmalade by Bonnie and Camille has similar colors - aqua, pink, yellow, orange, green....

Loulouthi by Anna Maria Horner - orange, pink, aqua, greens, blues

Simply Color by V and Co. has prints in those colors and coordinating solids.

Sunny Happy Skies by Bella Blvd is girly but has adorable prints with stripes and some dots too.

As you poke around I'm sure you'll find even more that works with your project.

marcella

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Marcella Peek

Den 10-08-2012 09:46, Hanne in DK skrev:

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Well, thanks for all the suggestions - something for me to go look up! Yeah :-)

Hanne in DK

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Hanne in DK

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