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There's No Excuse

MissMimi posted on Jul 22, 2008 | views: 267 | Tags: Colors, Green, quilting
I like green.  Hunter green, pale green, lime green, kelly green.  All wonderful colors.  But I wish someone would explain olive green to me.  There is no excuse for olive green.  It's just a horrible bilious color that goes with nothing.  As far as I'm concerned the only things that should be allowed to be olive green are olives.  And that's not even a sure thing.
 
Ditto that ugly mustardy baby-poo gold or yellow, or whatever the hell it is.  Blecch!  Again, nothing goes with it (except maybe olive green... good!  They deserve each other!)
 
In case you're wondering, I have spent a lot, I mean a lot of time this evening looking at quilting fabric online.  So many delicious colors, like candy for my eyes (sugar-free!  yay!).  But still these two colors just tick me off.
 
Don't even get me started on maroon... 
 
*As always, these are only my opinions.  Olive green and mustard gold lovers, please don't take offense. 


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  • crybabylu said on Jul 22, 2008....
    i totally agree!   especially mustard gold, now what would we want that for?  no offense anyone from me either....
  • MissMimi said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Exactly!  My husband painted his bathroom that ugly gold color.  He loves it.  I just keep the door shut so I don't have to look at it.
  • crybabylu said on Jul 22, 2008....
    would you believe, someone gave me a blouse that color?  I have to admit, I wore it once, for a picture mind you, because I am thinking yellow.....well, it looked like mustard and I never wore it again!
  • CayenneMan said on Jul 22, 2008....

       I'm sorry MissMimi but I can't be of any help with this one. But years ago, well actually not that long ago . . . when I was 14 or 15 years old I had an under the table job maintaining the landscaping in the front of a Glidden Paint Co. manufacturing plant. It was a big responsibility and I enjoyed it. I would often take a break and go into the plant to get a drink of water. There where several " Paint Pigment Labs " ( paint pigment has alot to do with creating the proper color in a paint - once aquired it is added to the other ingredients to get the right color)  in the area and I would stop in and talk to this guy who would have twenty or thirty samples of a color in sample form on his desk. This guy could take all of those colors (olive green for example) and put them in perfect order from lightest to darkest. To me they all looked the same. Some people have an eye for colors. I must not.

       I did't mean to lead away from the theme of your post but I felt it may be a good time to remind you that I am very tall and have big feet. You may want to add some length in the measurements relating to the quilt you are making me ;0)

     Well at least I thought it was worth a try.  

  • queenparanoia said on Jul 22, 2008....
    ewww at mustard gold... it looks dirty...
  • fearing said on Jul 22, 2008....
    I'm with you on the olive green!!!!  Ewww.  Good thing I wasn't in charge of picking the army uniforms or they'd look sharp in the woods rather than blending in......of course they'd all get shot but they'd look good.  ;-)

    I'm really interested to see some pictures of your quilting.  It is the one thing my grandma tried unsuccessfully to teach me.  I can sew, I can knit, I can crochet, needle point - you name it - I never could quilt.
  • sweetsoul said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Mimi olive green is one of my favourite colours...and that mustard colour, as long as it's not really bright...but more muted...looks good on me too.
     
    Now maroon we can agree on...burgundy too. And don't get me started on mauve. :)
     
    So what colours did you decide on?
  • fearing said on Jul 22, 2008....
    {whispers}
    MissM, sssshhh but I think Sweetsoul has been brainwashed by the army.  We may have to do an intervention. 

    ;-)
  • Mamie said on Jul 22, 2008....
    uh-oh, I love olive green, does this mean we can't be friends? hehe, and my master bedroom is pained a nice soft....gold...um, have I lost my mind?
     
    How did the fabric search go? any BIG ideas? bwahahahahah!!!!! shall we tell the troops?? Or shall we keep a secret? *wink*
  • secretlife said on Jul 22, 2008....
    i'm not even gonna tell ya about my olive green overstuffed chair then-
    i'm a fan of olive green! 
     
  • botoni said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Somewhere about 1963 to 1965 (for those of us who are really old) those olive greens and mustard yellows were the in color.  I seem to recall them having a revival in the 70s for kitchen appliances.  I'm so glad they havent resurfaced as the fashion essential!  Yuck.
  • MissMimi said on Jul 22, 2008....

    Okay, I'm stressing out here about olive green!  A lot of quilt fabric these days uses very muted, dirty-looking colors (in my opinion)  I think it's supposed to be a vintage look, but to me it looks like the fabric was dipped in muddy water over and over.  That gold color is very popular, and it just doesn't go with anything.

    I even have a blouse in what I would call a pale olive green, and I like it very much.  But it is, in my opinion, a terrible thing to do to a quilt. 

    ss, Mamie, and secret -- oh dear!  Please don't hate me!

    fearing -- LOL  Yes Army fatigues are a horrible color. 

    Cayenne -- Very creative way to lobby for your own quilt!  :)

    queenie -- I agree with you.

    botty -- I remember those colored appliances with some fear and revulsion.  We had a "harvest gold" dishwasher...

  • beyondtheveil said on Jul 22, 2008....
    mimi- We call that color olive drab and I would only wear it in the army. I thought the whole point of this color was to make things so they can't be seen. 
  • quietone said on Jul 22, 2008....
    hmmmmmmmm makes me think here!  LOL  I know exactly the colors you are referring to.  Lets see now.. what should I make?  hehehe... nope, I don't like those awful colors either.. the DO deserve each other!
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jul 22, 2008....
    I'm sorry to say that I enjoy that dark olive green on walls.  It's so soothing.  However, I'd have a tough time wearing clothing in that color.  The yellow baby poop color I'm totally with you on.  I really dislike maroon, but a good burgundy color is not out of the question for me.
  • Zayda said on Jul 22, 2008....
    I actually like olive green and that golden, mustard yellow. The two colors happen to look really good on me. :)
  • eurekame said on Jul 22, 2008....
    LMAO! Love it!! In some werid way I love all those colors....and I shouldnt be telling you this but this past month I painted my house a shade of this unmentionable color... *wink, wink! ;)
     
    maybe I'm color blind, right?! jk...
     
    have fun quilting-I'm gonna dive into my scrapbooking later this eve!
     
  • Eilan said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Our family room sectional is kind of a muted olive green.  Under the lighting in the store, it looked brownish (and the name of the color was really of little help), so I was a bit disappointed at how green it looked under our family room lighting.  It's kinda grown on me, though.
  • Mamie said on Jul 22, 2008....
    just to be ornory, I wore all olive green today...a green skirt, a green tee and a white tank...I even have on olive flip flops (sticks out tongue!!)
  • destinydiva said on Jul 22, 2008....
    well missmimi I am offended!!!!   olive green and mustard are my favourite colours!!!


    okay...your right, both colours suck!!!   lol  ;-)

    must admit..I'm not a big fan of any green.....except for the turqoiusy...bluey...aqua kinda green colour :-)
    which is really blue not green anyways so forget that :-)

    xx
  • hotaka said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Every colour has its place in the world. But sometimes people choose to use certain colours in fabrics, car paints, upholstery, etc. simply to give old ladies with too many cats an outlandish and unfashionable colour to choose so that they can feel they are sending some kind of geriatric message of rebellion to the world.
  • sweetsoul said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Mimi think of nature...the green, rust, gold, red,brown of leaves in the fall. They all go together and they're beautiful.
  • CreativeWoman said on Jul 22, 2008....
    I'm drawn to more vibrant colors like red or royal blue.  :-)

    CW
  • moonriver said on Jul 22, 2008....
    Me Caveman Moonriver.
    Me like olive green lizards and mustard gold beetles.
    They look yum yum juicy to me.
    Want some Miss Mimi?
    Ugh ugh ugh.

  • silverwhisper said on Jul 23, 2008....
    hmph!

    [trout-smacks mimi]

    i happen to like those colors too--but i'm with you on maroon.

    [trout-smacks mimi again for good measure]

    ed
  • MissMimi said on Jul 25, 2008....
    Hallelujah!  I have seen the light, sisters and brothers...  Certain shades of olive green are fine.  Split pea soup is still an ugly shade of green.  And I remain unconvinced about gold.
  • Mamie said on Jul 25, 2008....
    i think split pea soup is what they give to terrorists to make them sorry for thier offenses? I have no other understanding of what that is good for! and as for 'maroon"...can I say that my curtains in my master BR are burgundy, then? hehe!!
  • MissMimi said on Jul 25, 2008....
    Burgundy is a good color.  In my mind they are two different colors.  Maroon is just....  maroon.  And who names these colors anyway?  Maroon...  It even looks funny.

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