Congratulations!
Megan N
you're the randomly chosen winner
for last weeks Sorbet Color story giveaway
Please email your name and street address to: Info@michaelmillerfabrics.com
Now onto today's color story:
The color citron (and all it's variations) is a great example of how color trends evolve.
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Color trends usually start on the fringes. That's why I like to say, "pay attention to what you don't like". Your negative reaction may stem from the fact that it's "new" and your eye hasn't become adjusted to it. For example this ad was from around 2006. When I've shown this the reaction is usually negative. Comments like, "I could never wear that color next to my skin". But it's amazing how the more we see a color over time, the more we start to accept it and before you know it we're buying it. Probably not in this super saturated undiluted Dior couture creation but it'll start sifting into the mix of everything you buy from your clothes right down the line to the plastic storage bins you stash them in for the next season.
just for fun check out this scene from the movie:
So once again I've shared my thoughts, now share yours.
Leave a comment and a yard of each of the
prints pictured above
could be yours.
The randomly chosen winner will be announced next Wed. along with a new color story
and another
GIVEAWAY!
179 comments:
Now we're getting into something I like. Love that you have been updating this blog lately too.
I love the color stories, but I love this combo more!!!
Grey is one of my favorite colors! It's brings out other colors so well. It reminds me of the 50's in a good way...haha!
Thanks for a great giveway!
I love the citron and gray together. Probably my favorite color combo.
We are renovating a home and it's colors are gray/citron...I love it..and can't seem to get enough of it...
I also need to watch that movie again...it so fun!
It took me a long long long time to not bristle at the yellow-gray combination that has been so popular over the last few years. I'm finally starting to see things in this scheme and think they're cute. They're still not "me" though, so don't enter me in the drawing. I just wanted to comment on the evolution idea. :)
I love this combo- its great for any season IMHO!!
I also love that you are posting on the blog more!
I see these colors as great for the "One Yard Wonders" projects - lots of things made for ME:)
Love this color combo! I'm currently working on a quilt in the aqua/Gray combo & may have to do one in this combo after!
Oh my gosh........now THIS is absolutely beautiful!!!
Thx for the chance to win some.
holy smokes. i love love love that bicycle fabric! and my word verification is "crove." it should be like crave in the past tense. you know, i crove that fabric when i first saw it.
I love the color combo and those fabrics are great!
This is one of my all time favorite color combinations.
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This is one of my very favorite color combinations--love this fabric collection!
This is so true! When I was in a quilt guild in CA in 2000, the old ladies thought I was weird for wanting quilt blocks in purple & lime green, or orange & blue. Now I see it everywhere!
I'm excited that grey is back, but I prefer the lighter color.
This is a wonderful color combo, I'm already mulling over what to make.
Love this, and as gray is the new black it is perfect to go with everything ... especially citron!
Thanks for all the new blog updates, have really been enjoying them!!
I have always loved yellow and I'm loving gray now too. Combined, they are gorgeous! Thanks for a chance to win such great fabrics!
zucchinisummer at gmail dot com
I have been wanting to make a gray quilt but did not know what to put with it...pink was out! Now, this is something I really love. The color combinations are just super!!
My new fav color is CITRON! And my all time fav is GRAY! Perfect combo, beautiful!!!!!
Love this combo, its like a burst of sunshine in every piece of fabric
I have always loved this color pallette--thanks! nice blog post...
I adore this color story! And I love the part about seeing colors you don't like at first....I hated this combo when I first saw it over a year ago.....suddenly, I can't stop buying yellow and grey fabric!
Beautiful together! That bike print is fabulous! a
Love these colors together!
I have been obsessed with this color combo since college, so when my boyfriend proposed I knew immediately what I wanted my wedding colors to be!! I'm incorporating fabric and quilted details into my wedding decor and have had my eye on these fabrics for a while. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity! :)
it is fascinating how something that you originally didn't like can end up becoming a favourite... I find fashion has that effect on me a lot and since becoming a sewist, so has fabric combinations.
Believe it or not, I'm seeing this color combo at a lot of weddings lately. It's summery and elegant at the same time. Love it!
I remember painting color wheels at art school and then learning color theory and suddenly grey was an actual color for me... (AND I can't believe I have spelt color the American way 4 times now!! Feels weird LOL)
I love this color combination. It's one of my most favorites. I saw an ad in the NY TImes a few months ago, I think it was Eileen Fisher...a gray sweater with a citron scarf wrapped around the neck. It was wonderful!
I just love it all!!! and I love how gorgeous fabric is always, always 100% fat free ;-)
I always love the way colors look with gray.
These are my favorites colors. I just ordered Citron Soleil to make myself something...not sure what, but I couldn't resist. Thank you for the great color story:)
I really like the citron! Its pairing with gray helps soften it.
big fan of the bicycles. and thank you very much for explaining the whole "trends" thing. i've been asked that question many times and always find it hard to explain the phenomenon you so very well described. yay! for citron and grey! (and personally, i've been obsessed with that dior "yellow" for quite some time. loooovely!)
Just love this color combination. Love those fabrics too!
i've just become a huge fan of this color combo. basically pinning every yellow or gray thing to my pinterest account. I would LOVE this set to use for clothing, accessories and home decor! Good luck everyone!
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I love the citron grey combo. It was interesting what you said about color trends. I remember years ago, watching Trading Spaces--the designers were using light blue and chocolate together. I thought that was such an awful color combination for home decor. Eventually, I got used to it. Then I loved it. Then I got sick of it. :)
Thanks for the chance to win some fabric!
I love this color combination. I made a quilt last year for our master bedroom using these colors and I love it more each day.
Love these colors together!
This has been one of my favorite combos since I was a little girl (and that was a long time ago). There's just something about it!
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I admit I was never a fan of gray, but lately it is starting to speak to me and I am finally coming around. This would be great to kick off my new love of gray.
What a fabulous color trend! It's fresh, soothing, daring and calming all at once:)
We are about to redo our master bedroom in these colors! They are so fantastic!
Oh my word! What a fabulous giveaway!!! Thank you thank you!!! LOVE these colors!
I LOVE these colors! Anything with gray has been my go-to fabric choice this year. Can't wait to make something fun with this color combination.
I have always loved the color citron thanks to my mom, it was one of her favorite colors, but paired with the gray, I love it even more!
I hope I win this, but if I don't I'll be buying it anyway so I can use it for my bedroom!
i LOVE daisies.............in any color. i REALLY NEED that daisy fabric. my brother-in-law will love that bike fabric.
i feel a road trip coming on.
Love citron! And love that bicycle print too! Hope I win :)
this colorway taunts me. I always thought that it was a strange combination but it keeps surfacing in different places and now I'm eating my words!!
I like how it's bright, but not crazy bright. The yellowish color adds the perfect touch of color to the darker colors.
This is one pf my favorite color combinations ever!
I have been struggling to come up with a color for our main bathroom. I wanted to do something fun and colorful, not our usual brown/earth tones. I have been trying to force myself into a turquoise color, but after seeing this post, I am doing GRAY and CITRON!! Just the right amount of color... and I will be ahead of the trend instead of behind:) Thanks!
What a beautiful collection!
I love the color combo of citron & grey. It's seems very modern to me. I am loving the color stories.
Love ur blog! And I also loving citrus colors especially in winter time amongst all the dark shades we tend to wear
I find it fascinating about colors being on the fringe for a while before they hit; cool info, thank you!
Great story! I love this colour combination most at the moment. Moderna and refreshing at the same time. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck to me!
What a great color combo! Love it!
I absolutely LOVE gray combos! Gray and yellow are a big fav but I think gray and citron has surpassed it! these fabrics are SO CUTE I could die!!!!
I've started to enjoy citron & gray for summer colors that still make me feel cool - which used to only happen for me with blues. It's nice to jump out of my regular color rut!
Oh what a brilliant giveaway - I absolutely love this line :-) Thank you for the chance!
I have to admit I love this color story. These are colors I have been wanting to use in a quilt for awhile so I am happy they are the trend now and I love the Citron Gray Collection. Thanks for the DWP clip so funny!
Such a striking combination-I love it!
Great color story! I love the 2 colors together. I'll have to remember to 'pay attention to what I don't like'...thanks for the tip.
these are "feel good" fabrics....they make me feel so good...I NEED some!
Love Love Love this color combination. I am currently doing a mystery quilt in these colors!
Love the color combo! That would make a great quilt. Cant wait til I win it and get to make one. Thanks for the chance.
Love Gray and yellow!! I happen to be wearing a Gray dress and yellow cardigan right now. Perfect combination.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that color combination! It's so trendy and sophisticated.
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Citron and grey is one of my favorite color combinations. Grey is one of my favorite colors. I love almost all colors that have a hint of grey in it. This would be just an AWESOME collection of fabrics for me and I know EXACTLY what I'd do with it!
I'm all about citron and gray. I really want to use these colors in my living room. I just need to find the perfect gray sofa, easier said than done.
I really like this color combination. The citron makes it "happy" to me. And the grey is special too.
ginger c at gmail dot com
Love the designs of citron and gray. Gray is my husbands fav color.
Wow! A gorgeous collection of fabrics! I certainly think I have evolved because gray is my new favorite for everything but on top of my head!
Very interesting color combination. I think it has taken a little while to grow on me but now I really like it. I'd also love to see a little more green mixed into that yellow. Always love the gray...such a great neutral...
Oh! I love this collection! Pick me!
I couldn't see myself wearing the Dior dress, the colour is a little too intense for this pale strawberry blond. But I love the collection. Just enough of each colour.
This color story combination is a big winner - can see it for decorating with quilts. It has a pop yet the grey subdues some. Please enter me into the drawing! alternate email mlwright29(at)hotmail(dot)com
I am loving this new colorway. It's just so different and eye catching!
Beautiful fabrics, and someone will be a lucky winner! As far as my thoughts about color????? I've found that my likes and dislikes have changed so much since I started quilting. Colors I never liked have snuck into my heart. Awwww....
These prints are FUN!! I love those bicycles. :)
so FRESH!!!! love the bicycle fabric.
Lisa
LOVE the citron/gray combo! thanks for the chance to win! :)
I'm loving gray these days - it's such a great neutral and I love this combo!
I have noticed this color combo pop up everywhere lately--and I love it.
I love this collection. I suspect that my daughter would just go bananas over this. Looks like a quilt waiting to happen for her. Love your blog.
I totally love the Citron Gray Collection. It's fresh, classic and yet totally modern.
I love color topics and the crazier the better. I am of the opinion there are no ugly colors, just those who need to find the right color compliments!
Love these colors!!!
Lovely colours!
I love this color combo and so do my customers it sells very quickly - can't wait to experiment with some of your fabrics!
Grey has always seemed like a Seattle sky to me and I usually pass it by at my LQS. However, paired with the bold color in this combo, it is stunning! Plus, I love the patterns in this fabric line.
This is one of my current favorite combinations!
Cute color combo!
I love the citron/grey color combo! Grey is one of my favorite solids, and pairing it with a bright, fun color is perfect!
I find this colour combo really peaceful and calming. Thanks for the chance to win :-)
I think that sometimes when we see a colour in isolation we can't 'interpret' it into our lives. It is only when we see it combined with a more familiar colour that we can say that's fabulous. I like this combination. It is a great example of how to learn to mix colours up.
citron/grey ....la classe éternelle!!! un classique intemporel
i love it!!
Interesting story about color. Love the fabric combo.Thanks for the giveaway.
I love the way the gray compliments the citron and citron becomes alive with the gray! Very very nice!
This colour story is perfectly matched, so fresh and feminine .. lovely things can be made with this... I am all new to this quilting business but after have made number 3 i am itching to make number 4.
Cheers!
I got this colour combo tagged for an ensemble - Skirt, bag and purse. I have the yellow denim but have been looking for the coordinates. This range looks perfect!
I love this color combo! Bright, yet sophisticated :)
skklemm at gmail dot com
I have recently fallen in love with yellow, and it works fab with grey. Great collection!
oh, i need to watch that movie again! what a great clip and i am so guilty of the same "mistake" anne hathaway made! if it were up to me alone, i would wear black and white everyday! i do love the colorway featured today...what a divine quilt it would make for my room!
I love this new color. You can use mOre citron for a bright vibrant effect or you can tone it down with more gray for a more subtle and muted style
I love this combo - it looks amasing) Thanks for the chance.
I've not put those colours together in any of my projects but I can see now that they work really well together. Thank you for the giveaway.
Judith.
As someone with strong olive undertones I avoided yellow for the longest time, but once I got over it, I love it.
Love this collection...thanks for sharing your inspiration!
Bicycle fabric...and the color combo is growing on me. I do love yellow. Crabtree & Evelyn has a wonderful hand cream called CITRON.
I'm loving this color combo for the 'modern' take on gender neutral baby items. I will be using my fair portion in the upcoming months!
I'm making Gray the new brown!
I think this color combination and the prints are just lovely.
I am absolutely in love with the grey/yellow color combo, I want a whole room done it! Love love love these fabrics!
We just bought our first home and are painting the whole house in three shade of gray with green and blue accents. This fabric would be perfect for my guest room and bathroom...I see curtains, a shower curtain, a quilt and more. Oh how I hope I win!!
I never used to like yellow, but in the last few years I have come to adore it!! and then add grey, and Im in heaven!!
I love the citron/gray combination. My new couch delivered today...wondering if I can send it back and order a citron/gray combo!
Oh My! All of this fabric looks delicious! I'd love to get my hands on all of it!
I LOVE these colors and the prints are so cute! Would love to win!
Maybe Citron will rub off on me the way orange did. I used to hate orange and now it is my favorite color. I would love to work with these fabrics. What better way for them to rub off. :-) Thank you. Take care and God bless, Cory
wow! that is a really great color combo! what a terrific giveaway, thank you for the inspiration!
I love, love, love this. My friend is having a wedding in a few months and has chosen yellow and gray for her colors. At first I thought, "Really?? Hmmm." Now I'm 100% converted. I love the bicycles, love the daisies and the dots. Just love it!
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Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful fabric collection. I love it all. The color combo is amazing.
Love this color combo!!!! It reminds me of a cold, windy day on the beach....which is something I have been wanting for a long time. the beach in the summer is great, but nothing beats sitting on the beach in october in a big ole hoodie, just listening to the ocean!
I love this fabric! These are the colors I want for my room.
Alexis Johnson
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Absolutely love it! Like the punches of black with it as well! You are so right...sometimes a person can't "get into the color" until they have "lived" around it for a while. This color business is fascinating!!
I have been searching for a color combination for my daughters room and I just love this. I have always loved gray maybe because I love elephants. This just puts together the way I pictured it.
I love this fabric collection!!! It's something I would have never walked in and picked out myself but I can see so many possibilities! It is gorgeous!!! Thank you for opening my eyes!!! Amazing!
Love Love love the grey! And the lemon drops you have in that picture remind me of how my grandma always had a bowl of them sitting in her livingroom. I'd sneak them until my mouth was sore! I love the citron and grey together. It's an exciting new combination!
I love the color theories you are presenting! Really interesting about the darker the hair, the more intense the color and vise versa!! I never knew!! I love my colors saturated - and i'm a brunette! LOL! The citron and grey combo is one of my favorites, and this line is absolutely gorgeous! Love love love the high contrast, and modern statement they make!
Citron and all it's derivitives has been a long time favorite of mine - and i love putting it with red! :) Thanks for the chance to win!
I've been wanting to get a collection of new, "fresh" fabrics and this is the one. I'm shopping for a quilt pattern now.
I am loving this colorway as I have found that I love the grey/citron combination. These fabrics are awesome and I have 2 local quilt shops to get these in!
a whole yard of each! oh the possibilities!!!!!! I am not sure I like the picture, and the 80's poofy frizzy hair was ugly. some things are too much. I think it is a perfectly fine color mixed with gray, and you have proven that with this wonderful collection.
You are making me feel better about changing my mind on colors I strongly dislike. Orange and mustardy yellow were my least-liked colors, and now I want to quilt with them in a big way. Your post made me feel less like a wishy-washy follower--I am someone who rejects the new and dislikes change, and it's no surprise I'm that way with color as well.
Thanks for the giveaway.
wordygirl at earthlink dot net
I have loved grey for years; I'm so happy it's finally in! Citron has also been a favorite of mine, too! Thanks for the giveaways and insight into your color choices!
Love this color combo; I can picture it in so many different projects!
This is currently my favorite color combo. I have a few of these fabrics already and would love more.
jmichaelpike@aol.com
Absolutely beautiful patterns, great colorway very fresh and modern
The prints are fabulous! I already have a pattern in mind that would be great with these. Thanks for the chance!
These new color combinations are growning on me. I am expecting my first grandbaby and her parents are using these colors for her nursery. Who would have thought of a yellow and gray baby's room?
what fun fabric to keep summer around but slowly move into fall...
I just redecorated my bedroom in this color combo and I would love these prints! Thanks you for the fun giveaway!
I would think the same thing looking at that photo, but I'd most definitely want that fabric combo. I've been eyeing it online and LOVE it!!
Love this color combo-the bicycles are so cute!
I have been collecting gray and trying to decide what to put with it. This would be perfect!
I have been collecting gray and trying to decide what to put with it. This would be perfect!
I have been collecting gray and trying to decide what to put with it. This would be perfect!
I have been collecting gray and trying to decide what to put with it. This would be perfect!
I have been collecting gray and trying to decide what to put with it. This would be perfect!
The citron isn't usually a color I go for, but it's fabulous with the gray!
absolutely love the citron and grey collection!
looking at it brings to mind lemonade and silver. both of these are cooling to the mind. maybe it is because we are in the middle of summer with my a/c on the fritz that i find these prints so refreshing.
bold and crisp and cool yet lemon is a warm color, non? and very retro... so much that i envision sitting at a 60's diner, with yellow arborite tables and covered seats, sipping on cool lemonade, wearing a skirt of the large black and yellow flowers. the waitress behind the long counters of course would be wearing an apron from one of the prints. and of course outside the window people would be riding bicycles.
it also reminds me of the 60's and my mother as she would wear prints like these. she was bold for women of her day and i loved her clothes.
i love it!
My daughter and I love this new line!
My son and his fiancé are not quilt people but I wanted to make a quilt for their wedding, so I showed them this collection of fabric and they fell in love with it. We plan to make a contemporary quilt with this fabric and this is perfect for the couple! This yellow and grey combination has shown up in their wedding plans!
Check out this website for citron/gray wedding trends.
http://www.colourlovers.com/wedding/blog/2011/06/22/wedding-color-trend-yellow-gray
Thanks! Becky and Laura
I won't have thought I would like this color combination as much as I do. I would love to use it in a project. Thanks for the chance
I LOVE this line! Its perfect for me. I am a muted neutral with a splash of color and/or crazy. Thank you for all your great designs and quality fabric.
LOVE these colours! These fabrics would be well loved in my house :) The colours a sophisticated and classic, I could make many lovely things out of these fabrics.
Clean, crisp, elegant. What more can I say?
Love this color combination! They say gray is the new black, and prit near everything goes with black! So, these colors suit each other very well.. Quite pleasing to the eyes. :)
This is a wonderful color combination. I've gravitated to a light to medium citron when selecting some clothing items for myself and now it's more widely available in prints! Thanks Kathy and MMF for creating these absolutely delicious prints....a very welcomed breath of fresh air!
These would go so sweet in my daughters bedroom. I have the 16 inch horizontal gray and white stripes painted and I'm ready to decorate! Pick me!!!
crice@chartermi.net
Sandy
I love these fabrics...soo beautiful!
OMG! I'm seriously in love with this collection! My mind is racing with all the wonderful possibilities.
Gorgeous colours and fabric, but I think you're right about becoming used to certain colour combos. Thanks for the chance!
Wow, love this colour combination - it really is vibrant (never thought I'd say that about grey). Would love to win the fabrics, am moving home soon and can already see myself making some new accessories!
This is my daughters combo of choice right now. She loves every shade of yellow/citron. Oh what I could do with those fabrics.
This is such a soooooothing color combo! I love it!!
I love Grey and though i am surprised to see it goes so well with citron! well, they say that grey is the new black. haha! :)
thanks for the opportunity!
Where were you three years ago when I was getting married???? We incorporated these colors into our wedding almost 3 years ago this September. We had a vintage yellow Schwinn tandem bicycle that provided the inspiration. My husband is a cycling addict so it only seemed fitting to incorporate the tandem and the color scheme into our wedding. Oh the fun things I could have done with these fabrics!
Love the clip from The Devil Wears Prada almost as much as I love these fabrics. I had been looking for this color combination and was delighted when I found it in some of my favorite Michael Miller fabric designs.
This fabric is awesome!!
LOVE the color combination!! The funny thing is I was just thinking the other day how pretty much everything we wear is- without us realizing it- exactly what the fashion industry is telling us to wear. I was looking at all the trendy outfits and accessories and thinking how all the young girls probably felt like they had come up with the idea when in reality it was put together by someone long before they ever saw and purchased it!
Whenever I see this color combo I'm amazed at whoever thought to pair gray with yellow...Wonderful!...and now I see it everywhere. :)
I have never really been much for yellow, but I actually like this combo. It would make a cute spring dress!
I'm sad :(
I can't find any Zoology in Citron fabric anywhere! I am pregnant with my first baby and am choosing various MM grey and citron prints for everything but the zoology in citron is nowhere to be found. Can someone help me??
Thanks for considering me,
Adele.
There's no doubt, the guy is completely right.
Yellow has never been my favorite color but everytime I enter a fabric shop I am drawn to the yellows. Putting it with gray makes it absoulty stunning. I love this whole collection. By the way my kitchen is painted in 4 shades of yellow. Go figure LOL
I would love love to get my hands on this stuff please
Quite useful piece of writing, thank you for this article.
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