...........
and the winner for last weeks'
Rouge et Noir giveaway
is:
viktoriakreations
viktoriakreations
pls. email your name and street address to: info@michaelmillerfabrics.com
Now for today's color story:
This color story is
ALL ABOUT HAPPY MEMORIES
you remember, we've all got'em;
that outfit you adored
or
that apron grandma wore
or
that TV show
or
that toy, that bike, that car
We stash those colors in our memory like boxes in the attic.
That's why we did this group of happy Super Heroes,
by our own Super Hero:
the colors and characters bring out the kid in all of us.
What's your happy retro color memory?
leave a comment and you'll be entered to win a yard of all the super hero prints pictured above.
one random winner will be announced next Wednesday!
Happy trails to you!
157 comments:
My retro color memory is back in the 70's in my daughters nursery...thanks for the opportunity to win..and a new grandson in 6 weeks..so would love the fabric.
my retro color memory is all about the greens, pinks and yellows... I had the coolest quilt a relative made for me and it had the pastel colors of greens, pinks and yellows... wish I knew where that quilt was now!
I'm digging the super hero prints though! And I know a little boy (my cousin Cam) who would LOVE a quilt made from it..
These are FABULOUS!
Plaid bellbottoms with skinny shirts!
orange flowered wall paper my mother insisted my father paste up all over the kitchen...it was so cheery lol
I was born in the 80's, so retro to me is 90's black & neon ;-)
80's rainbow bright and Shera!!!
orange. like the kumquats and orange my grandma had in her yard
What a fabulous collection. So bright and fun!
When I was little I had a pedal car that I begged to have painted Candy Apple Red. I don't even think they make that color anymore, but I still remember how happy that can of spray paint made me!
These colors make me so so happy as well! They are such a hoot! I tend to lean towards retro/chic when decorating. What fun I could have with this fabric.
How fun! I love these fabrics--I feel happy just looking at them.
Long tiered skirts that I wore back in the 70's!
Judith
My retro color memory is a green spaghetti strap dress that my mom made me when I was a kid! I used to love that dress (I still would if it was there :))
Thanks for the giveaway!
My retro color memory is blue, red and yellow pinwheels and teeny-tiny samples of Wonder Bread given away at the county fair when I was four. This fabric is so happy and fun; my grandsons would love it, too!
Dang...you millers really rock the color world!! Love all of these cuties!!
My retro memory: the black sunglasses from the 90's with the florescent bands/arms.
I love this fabric - I have a 3 year old superhero that will love it! I wasn't sure I had any retro memories until I was reading previous comments and remembered my brother's nursery (circa 1981) that was all primary colors and farm animals. I loved that room!
My favorite retro color memory is my lime green and lemon yellow bedroom in the 70s. I had wallpaper with lime green gingham and huge yellow daisies on my walls, and lime green carpet. Oh I LOVED that room!! I had a white canopy bed from Sears that I begged and begged my parents to get me and my mom made me green and yellow gingham bedding and canopy. I LOVED my lime green carpet because it looked like grass with my Barbie camper on it. Oh, such a great room. Lime green is still my favorite color and if you put it with yellow, that is my childhood, right there.
Thank you for the chance.
I miss the green shag carpet, and blue and green tin floor at my family's cabin in bigbear. everything else is still pretty retro up there, but the flooring has been chang
How fun! Love the superheros!
I think my retro colour memory would be dusky pink and apple green cos that was my bedroom when I was 7, the first time I was allowed to pick the colours!
color memory: third grade in the mid-80s. i LOVED purple and had this outfit that was purple cords, a white turtleneck with purple somethings on it, and a purple sweater vest. pretty awesome.
ohh wow, I love these! I imagine a kids room redo with these. :)
My retro colors are yellow and orange (child of the 60's and 70's, obviously!). I remember my mom sewing matching clothes for me and my two sisters all the time in those colors! I love that this color story is so happy!
LOVE LOVE!!! Aqua and Mustard colored vinyl chairs with brassy button accents/trim. :)
GEE! I THINK IT'S RAGGEDY ANN+ANDY! JUST LOVE THOSE KIDS! LOVE YOUR SUPERMAN PICS TOO! THANKS FOR SHARING!
jldouglas@wispwest.net
How fun. These would be great for a boys room.
Love, love, love that superhero fabric! For some reason it makes me think of the bright colors of Saturday morning cartoons when I was growing up. What a great collection.
My "retro" color memory is of the tupperware of sprinkles my gramma kept to dip our ice cream cones in - so many colors, and so old school! For some reason, the sprinkles ended up being called "boogers" so, you know, "Gramma!! Can we have boogers on our ice cream?!".
The bright cerise paint that I was allowed to choose for my bedroom in the late 70's to go with the huge yellow and pink flowered wallpaper :)
Hmm, I've chosen yellow and pink for my little girl's room.
Love your superhero fabrics - thanks for the chance to win!
Retro is so in right now. Love the colors :)
My memory of turquoise is a strong happy one. I associate it with my beloved nan and although she is gone, I still choose that colour to keep her memory alive in everything I like. I buy turquoise items very frequently!!
I am using these same super hero fabrics for my son's super hero birthday party next month! it took everything I had not to order the others!
I love this collection!
My grandmother made me a yellow and black print dress that was my all-time favorite - loved the colors then (1950's) and still do! And this Retro line looks divine - would be great for the granddaughters and great-neices and nephews!
My retro colors is blue and red...
would like to win this gorgeous fabric :)
I'd say it was purple! Because I hated pink as a girl, I sticked to red and navy blue :)
My retro colour memory has to be my bedroom that I shared with my sister as the walls had pink and white stripe wallpaper, the ceiling was pink and the carpet was this mad mix of brown leaves and the curtains! Oh the curtains were blue with big sketchy drawn circles in dark navy. Wow. That some pattern and colours eh? I really love all the bright colours and superhero print in this collection!
I need these for my appliques.
Love 'em!
My fav retro color memory is my mom's waffle iron--it was avocado green with herbs on it...when I would have a friend sleep over, or for a special occassion she would make waffles on it...a few years before she passed, I talked her into giving it to me so I could have those same memories with my son!
LOVE this collection!!!
I love these fabrics! Would be perect for my little guy!
My retro memory is this really cool pair of pants that I remember wearing when I was a little girl. The big flower print reminded me so much of the 70's! I hope I win. Love those polka dots and super heroes!
I have so many but the first one that comes to mind is a super cute plastic comb I had...molded with flowers on it and in the most yummy shade of mint green. I only had it a short time before I lost it, but I still remember how awesome I thought it was. :-)
Lunch boxes! I LOVE old tin Lunch boxes!
retro memory- green shag carpet in the house my parents bought when I was about 8.
My retro memory is the matching curtains and bedspread in my bedroom c1972 ........ large bold purple/lilac flowers from Marks and Spencer!!
I remember ...the old black Chevy where I dropped my orange sherbert ice cream! ...the white shirt I wore for my kindergarten picture with butterflies on it. ...cutting my own hair before my kindergarten picture! ...wearing pink and red together! ...piercing my dolls ears.
Retro for me is Wonder-women (remember the tv series) Carpet in bathrooms and kitchens. Mothers in the kitchen cooking with aprons. Dads in the living room smoking a pipe. Holidays in Caravans and matching xmas jumpers xxx and OMG LOVE THIS NEW RANGE
Watching morning cartoons...Josie and the Pussycats, Electric Company, Original Scooby Doo, Great Space Coaster. There were so many good ones!
Love the superhero fabric! So many bright colors, it looks like a big box of crayons :)
When I was about 4 years old I got a chartreuse green toothbrush at the dentist's office. I loved it so much that my mom painted the bathroom the same color to match it!
The new superhero print is so cute. My boys are going to go nuts over it :)
my favorit retro color is brown and orange! so 70!
How could I forget the orange kitchen benchtops with the dark brown faux wood doors?
I grew up in the 70s & early 80s. My color memories include green shag carpeting, the beige & woody panel AMC Pacer that my mom had, and my hot pink velveteen short shorts with the rhinestone-eyed elephant on the pocket!
I love all the colors from the 60's and early 70's. I remember the avacado green appliances and the wall paper with the big orange, yellow, and brown flowers on it in moms kitchen. I think my favorite though is the burnt orange pantsuit that I got in 1st grade to wear on the days we had calithenics. It was so much fun not having to wear a dress those days!
my retro color memory is a blur of the 80's w/ all the bright neon that everyone thought was great to wear together. bleh. :)
my grandma had turqoise, hot pink, yellow and orange metal cups that she would put in the frig to get cold and then serve our milk with fresh baked cookies! I swear that milk always tasted better than any other milk I have ever had!!
I remember my mother's 1960s color scheme - black and white with accents of turquoise and orange. Hey, that actually sounds pretty nice!
My retro colours that I love (I'm not quite old enough to have memories yet ;)) is the turquoise/orange/avocado greens. Super diggin those together!!
My retro colour memories include neon and biker jackets - a teenager in the 80's :-)
Love the super hero's!
Ooh and I just remembered wearing fishtail skirts in yellow and purple - scarey memories!!!
My shirt with a unicorn screen-printed on the front. Man, I loved that shirt. And I LOVE this fabric combination!
My retro color memory is blue and white from my grandmothers cottage, a bit of toile. Thanks for the chance to win! My local quilt shop closed recently and I am lonesome for Michael Miller fabric! cjdempsey9 at msn dot com
i remember my gold and red winnie the pooh room. so long ago...
wyler27@gmail.com
I love all things retro! This line is adorable and I would be thrilled to win. Thanks for the chance.
My retro color memory has to be this cartoon "The care bears" we had on the TV in the early 80's: Rainbow bright neon!
My mother used to have a fabulous full floral skirt, elasticised at the waist with great big pockets on the front...I love love loved it. It was pale blue with beautiful big apricot and lemon flowers.
oh oh oh is this where we comment for a chance to win??? i'd love love love to win
i really love this
Neon floral bubble suits all the way! Love this fabric!
Any fabric with big bright flowers is retro to me.
Retro memory?? I'm living it!! Shag carpet, paneled walls, everything so dark with HUGE splashes of orange! LOL Thanks!
I specifically remember some lovely pea-green shag carpet - the thought makes me smile (though I would hate to have it in the house now!).
The fabric is adorable! I love love love it!
My beautiful purple/lavendar floral wallpaper and bright green carpet in my bedroom in the 70's. I loved it!!!
Fun, fun, fun!! Just bring a smile you your face.
(early 60's) I shared a bedroom with my younger sister. Our twin bedspreads had 3 colors of purple cascading in ruffles all around. I can vividly remember as if it were in one our bedrooms now.
Beckie in Brentwood, TN
I remember the colors my mom used to use to decorate the house -- she was always in style even if the style was avocado green and harvest gold! Maybe I got my interest in colors (though not THOSE colors) from her.
My favorite "retro' color memory involves the colors avacado green, yellow and orange. I had some pretty crazy animal/jungle wallpaper in my room as a child, and when my younger sister was born she got my room and boy was I upset about having to leave my cool funky jungle wallpaper! Love retro colors!
My retro color memory is of the yellow and orange leather suitcases my grandparents stored in the closet we played in. Also the orange ugly chair my mom still has in her living room. lol
Oooooo! My favorite retro memory is from when I was a little girl in my grandma's house. She had this cacophony of colors and fabrics that made up her couch, pillows and bedspreads. Those colors take me back to the sounds, smells and sights of her house!
I love the youthful feeling of these bright happy colors. These colors remind me of frezee pops. Mmmm.
Grew up with yellow kitchen appliances, and pink tile bathroom. Lovely. - Kacey Q
My Grandma's 1970's yellow kitchen is a happy memory.
ginger c at gmail dot com
What a wonderful set of fabrics! Makes me want to go outside and play. Such a fun set!
As a kid in the 80's I had bright, bright purple denim short overalls with a flouro orange belt with a flower buckle - makes me smile just thinking of it!
I love the prints. I was in elementary school in the 70's. My favorite outfit included a pair of green bell bottoms with purple grape appliques on one leg. Stylish!
My retro color memory is of all the bright colors on my grandmothers lighted wheel that turned and reflected bright hues of blue, red, yellow, orange and green onto her silver tinsel Christmas Tree.
I also remember all the kitchens decorated with avocado green, orange and yellow mushrooms. Didn't like it then and don't like it now.
Orange! I love that it was everywhere! I especially love that this has super heroes!
Hee hee! My happy retro color memory is about some pastel plaid bell bottom pants that my sister had a long, long time ago! I think there was a pink bodysuit that went with them.
Such happy colors! The fabrics put a smile on my face.
Cute collection! Love the superhero print.
My momma bought me a pretty red and white checked dress (tiny checks)with a white peter pan collar that had a tiny black bow at the neck front. Puffy sleeves. Full skirt. Lovely black patent leather shoes and white ruffly socks. For my on-stage curtsey as Princess of my school's first grade class.
Red-and-white checked fabric. 1956.
That's pretty retro!
I could really use some Super Heroes in my life. My Retro color memory is always Hot Pink and Red. Delightful.
I would still have some avacodo green shag carpet if I could!
My favourite retro colour memory would be the turquoise top with gold stripes I wore in my teens. The first item of clothing my grandmother gave me that I really liked and wore to death!
these fabrics look so fun!!!
tanisanderson at shaw dot ca
I loved my hot pink hypercolor tshirt!
Thanks for the chance to win some great prints!
My yellow daisy Vera Neumann print bedroom. I had the bedspread, the lamp, the pillows, the sheets, and the trashcan. Nearly 40 years later, I still love it and miss it. Best bedroom decor of my life!
My retro memory is absolutely the awfull green carpet in my room in the 80's. We bought a house and that carpet was everywhere, in every room, also on a wall and bed in the masterbedroom :) Because we didn't have the money to redecorate the carpet my parents bought us Laura Asley wallpaper, tiny pink flowers with that same green in it!
I never used that colour again, I am more open for the colours in your fabric-collection :)
Greetings from Norway!
Greetings from SG!
I am not sure cos I am born in the year of 70s :) but i love blue and yellow, all the bright colors :)
thanks for the giveaway!
My retro color memory? The flowered wall paper my parents pasted up in the new caravan...really Kitsch!!
My retro color memory is of the bright green and orange I painted the toy shelves in my baby's room.
My happy color memory would be lavender... thats the color my mom painted my room, and I had a white bedspread and sham and curtains with lavender and purple flowers on it... I thought I was the queen... Thanks for the chance!
I totally wished I was the Bionic Woman! I had a little metal lunch box for school and dreamed of running that fast! Thanks for the giveaway and chance to win such great fabric!
my happy memory is the wallpaper that was in my parents house. it was a dark gold with a olive green flock. can you dig it?
I remember going up a friend of mine had a burnt orange shag rug in her living room. Talk about time warp!
Love the cute superhero print, and the bright colors.
I love the polka-dots and stripes! Those just make me happy! I love the trampoline on the top print. It reminds me of jumping for hours whenever we went to our friends' house. We never could have one, so we always jumped ourselves silly when we went there! Love it!
Black and red and yellow.....seeing these colors together always remind me of happy vacations at my Grandma's house in the 50's. She had one of those kitchens filled with a massive salt and pepper shaker collection, fruit themed curtains and a red/black mottled floor.
Thanks for this opportunity to win such an adorable print.
my favorite memory is my first quilt. made of scraps my mother made for my sisters and me as children. its a terrible quilt, and i love it all the same! lots of great color in this quilt!
This reminds me of flying my son around the room playing "Super Hero". He would love a super hero cape made out of this fabric.
Orange marigolds in my mom's flower bed. Love them!
I love all the retro colors from the 70's and I love how a lot of them are coming back in style. It makes all the furniture from then look amazing.
I loved my big wheel (RED) and the "sit'n spin" was AWESOME! I think that was RED too. Hmmmm. I love bright and bold colors, they always look awesome with black. :-)
My retro color memory is wearing my mom's 70's clothes! She used to have these cool light brown "marshmallow heel" platforms. Like a wedge style. Plus, I always wore her 70's sweaters that we skin tight. I love retro. I may have been born in a time that is soon to be retro, but I love RETRO & what it encompasses (the whole mind set)! What can I say, I'm an old soul!
We do not have alot things that match..I had bright yellow, orange, white sheets with a BIG printed flowers all over it and my rug was shag lime green. I was only 5 and I thought my room was the coolest!! Looking back it was alittle odd but I do still have those sheets..My friend called it vintage..uummm
My boys will love it!! They are superhero fans!
Ah the 70's - the years of burnt oranges, browns and avocado green. Although my favourite dress was the softest pale pink - blush I think.
My 'retro' colors are red and blue (my sister was red and I was blue) and then into avocado green, mustard yellow - who can forget the 70's? Thanks for 'boy' fabrics - long missing and needed.
My retro color memory is my first bedroom makeover. I was finally in my own room and we painted the walls yellow, my grandma made a yellow quilt and curtains to match and there was yellow everywhere. I loved it. But looking back it was WAY too much yellow.
This is my favorite of all the colorways and Shawn hits is out of the park again!
I cant help but think of my mom's dishes from my childhood -- Corelle Spring Blossom! Retro green flowers!
My retro color memory is blue & white: my grandmother had her dining room wallpapered in a print that was blue & white, and her china dishes were blue & white.
My retro color memories would have to come from the colors of sesame street....a lot of primary colors on polo shirts, overalls, and jumpers.
My retro color memories?
TV in black and white ;-)
or: these old pictures, that turn sepia-colored...
things were brighter when I was a kid, especially candies, because today, they don't use artificial food color anymore (at least in Germany, where I grew up...)
Ah, the colors of "perlipop", a popsickle coverd whith non-pareil, or Himbo, a vanilla popsickle coverd with bright pink rasperry sherbet *yummie*
Greetings,
Tina
That super hero fabric is awesome!!! LOVE it!
The superhero fabric is so cute. It reminds me of my Wonder WOman under-roos I used to love to wear. I loved them so much I had a set for everyday of the week. Not a day went by without me wearing them. Thanks for the memories and the opportunity to win.
JenniferDannielle(at)comcast(dot)net
I remember the red and white metal kitchen table with great family memories when we all had meals together around it. And of course we had the green shag rug with the rake to keep it "lookin' groovy." Thanks for the chance to win.
Marlene
My retro colour memory was of a pair of curtains from Marks and Spencer (UK Brand) from the 70's - they were in my mum and dad's bedroom.
They we Purple, Mauve and Lilac and had huge swirly flowers printed all over the open weave cotton. I wish my mum still had them but I fear they were given away to the charity shop a long time ago!
my retro memory is a blow-up clown punching bag. no matter how hard my sister and I beat that thing it just keep popping back up! Fun and frustrating.
Love the fabrics!
I think I'd have to say my color memory (although probably not very retro as I was born in the late 80's) was the first time I was allowed to paint my room myself. I chose lime green, bright blue, and Yellow swirls. I was so proud of it.
I love this super hero set and I know my 2 and 3 year old boys would too! They are all boy!!
jaimeddesigns at hotmail.com
Crayola crayon colors and stripes - a turquoise and golden yellow reversible skirt that my grandmother made us....these are some of my retro color memories
My parents had one of those retro melamine tables with bright orange chairs. And Mum was a big Tupperware fan...I still remember the orange and lime green lids!
LOVE this!!! Makes me remember my UNDEROOS! Do you remember those? Mine was supergirl! LOVED them! I wish they made them for grown ups! I'd love to rock those now!
I love these colors together! It kind of reminds me of the Jetsons!
My retro color memory stems from Saturday morning cartoons, from the Jetsons to the Flintstones to Gummi Bears. Love the retro collection!
Reminds me of the 70's, cartoons, colors and dots and strips.
My happy retro color memory? Mom and Gran made all my clothes, but my favorite was a cowgirl outfit of red and yellow. My superheroes were the cowboys and girls (Dale Evans and Buttermilk come to mind)and that great music that signalled help was on the way!! I love thinking that the quilts I make for my "adopted" nieces and nephews make memories for them as well. By the way - "Cycling 'Round the Zoo in the Rain" from the fabric I won is in progress!!
my favorite!
I've loved these fabrics ever since I saw pictures of your market booth -- SO fun!
Adorable, fun and I can still use for "grown-up" sewing. I love your fabric!
I had a plaid shirt with fun, retro bright colors that I wore all the time. I had it on for my birthday party, I think the first day of school pictures, etc.
I would say mine would be Ditto jeans and plaid skirts with matching headbands
absolutly love it!
My retro color memories are of the clear, crisp reds, greens, blues, and yellows of the Dick and Jane series, and of the illustrations in my (now antique-looking) Mother Goose book. I was an early reader, and when I see those illustrations, the colors envelop me. Which reminds me--I have some of that Dick and Jane fabric, which would make a great backing for some wonky pinwheels like the ones in this tutorial!
Thanks for the giveaway.
wordygirl at earthlink dot net
Household Retro = brown, brown, brown with the odd splash of yellow and orange thrown in; chocolate brown, earthy brown, unhealthy tan brown, detective raincoat brown, biscuit brown, mustard yellowy greeny brown, bourbon brown, burnt toast brown, fallen leaves brown. This adorned carpets, wall coverings, soft furnishings! The photos may as well have been sepia from that 70s era!
In 1966 my father brought home Batman and Robin superhero costumes for my brother and I. We ran as fast as we could up and down the driveway, making our capes fly in the wind.
I love the retro superheroes!
I love the retro look! Anything polka dots is always fun and I really like the superhero fabric you have!
~Leslie
My four year old grandson would love the super hero fabric he is just crazy about them. My favorite retro fabric was a purple chiffon dress I had when I was about 16 in the fifties.
We had a yellow kitchen gowing up. Such a bright and cheerful place. The floor was golden yellow with rust and brown.
Color memory - the red white and blue paint we used to paint all the fire hydrants into 'Redcoats' in our town to celebrate 1976
Happy retro colors remind me of summers at my grandma's spending them outdoors all day long with cousins! Good times
Retro to me are colours like orange and brown, like the colours popular in the seventies. Even though I was born in the eighties, I linked the word 'retro' first to these colours, and I absolutely love them.
I am looking for the fabric now for curtains for my bedroom. I am so picky in the fabric I want, that I shop online in the States, even though I live in Amsterdam, Holland.
Such a shame we don't have these kinds of fabrics here in my part of the world! Totally love them!
My Retro Color Memory is the turquoise in my grandmother's kitchen...loved it!
I love looking at these and seeing how many of the same inspirational fabric pictures I have in my style file. thanks for sharing
haha really good memories, I remember when my mom made to us a lot of bed covers with those fabrics they were really cool.
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