Today the We Love Color Book Tour stops here! This book is a Stash Books and Robert Kaufman collaboration full of quilts from 16 different designers made only Kona solids. Look Ma, no prints!
Are you surprised to hear that I am one of the 16 “quilt designers” included in this book? Not as surprised as I was when editor Susanne Woods first asked me to contribute. I was honored and intimidated and excited by the challenge. But I’ll save that for another post…right now we are focusing on COLOR!
In addition to the We Love Color Book, there are 28 new Kona colors being released this month, one of which is a beautiful pink called Azalea. I think it looks fab with my favorite green Kona color, Lime. Call me preppy, but I just love pink and green together. Like that little green alligator on my pink polo shirt in 8th grade.
As part of the tour, you can win a copy of the book and a bundle of the new Kona colors, by commenting on this post. Be sure to leave the proper contact info should you be the randomly chosen on July 2nd! Tell me: what’s your favorite color combo and why?
For more info, be sure to check out the full tour schedule.
***UPDATE: Contest and comments closed. Thanks for your entries! The winner has been emailed.***
I’m currently working on a quilt with turquoise and pink (yikes!). But I love contrast and bright colors. Thanks for the opportunity to win these awesome prizes….Connie in California
vpdirectora(at)aol(dot)com
My favourite colour combination is glacier and ash. I love petrol blue and grey together!
annegretgelbrecht[at]gmx[dot]de
I love raspberry and teal (not far from pink and green!) and also blue and white – an oldie but a goody!
Chocolate and gold. Like a caramel chocolate bar or a sunflower, or topaz and gold jewelry. Can’t wait to see your quilt!
Oh, my favorite combo would have to be pink and lime green. It reminds me of summer and having fun with my cousins….Definitely pink and lime green.
I love grey and aqua right now!
I am a fan of pink and orange lately – nice summery combination!
I’ve always loved baby blue and avocado. Reminds me of my favorite outfit in jr. high (a long time ago)!
Ohhh, cornflower blue and orange is a combo I come back to again and again 🙂
This comment has been removed by the author.
This comment has been removed by the author.
Orange & Orange….Can’t get enough of Orange!
I love the blues, color of my husbands eyes and purples because my god-daughter just loves purple all over her bedroom. Fun! Judith, Texas
Somehow I’m taken with purple and green — more like cerise and chartreuse. I just like the contrast!
I’m loving pink and yellow at the moment, with a touch of grey. I’d love to win 🙂
Love blue and yellow it always seems so cheery to me.
love to work with blue and browns beautiful colors of nature
Blue and Yellow. Because they are my two favorite colors, like sunshine and sky.
My favorite color combo varies, but I really love red, blue, and green. It makes me think of summertime and picnics!
Tropical colors like the bright aqua blue from the ocean off of an exotic beach mixed with fruit and flower colors like pineapple yellow, hibiscus red and dark purple. I actually found this blog tour while looking for a Kona solid in dark purple to match Moda’s Essential Dots in dark purple.
I love pink and brown together. I know it’s kind of overdone at this point, but that pairing just reminds me of chocolate cake with pink frosting. (and I’m not a huge fan of pink, which is funny)
I currently love the combo of gray and yellow, so parchment and citrus from the collection!
I love pink and green also; I have a few “favorites” – purple and green, and pink and brown!
I love aqua and red. 🙂 BEcause red is my favorite color, and it looks great with aqua. Thanks!
My favourite combo is bright magenta pink and a dark navy. When I met my husband, many moons ago, he had a patch of striped material in these colours on the knee of his jeans; he told me it came from his old school blazer.
I love orange and blue, no special reason.
thank you!
My favorite combo is pink and grey.
Coral and grey, at the moment. But I also love pale, pale blue, and cornflower blue, and spring green, and buttercup yellow, and… Well, you get the picture. How can anyone choose a favorite when there are so many wonderful colors?
I have been collecting red and yellow for a quilt. They just make each other sing!
My daughter would say rainbow, but I’m rather partial to greens and blues and turquoise and red.
so many color combos are great! it’s hard for me to pick my favorite. i’m really like gray with pretty much anything right now…gray and pink. gray and blue. gray and green. gray, gray, gray! 🙂
I’m a fan of purple and green. . .love them by themselves, and together they look even better. Give me lilac, aubergine, violet, you name it and I love all greens from lime to forest. I’m not too fussy!
Beautiful new colors! Currently my favorite combo is gray plus something bright or dark. Like how gray makes it more interesting and brings out the intensity.
I also love pink and green, but specifically coral and lime. Another favorite is magenta and red-orange.
I love pink and brown. I just can’t get enough of it for baby girl quilts 🙂
pink and brown. or lime green and any other color 🙂 Darn it’s hard to pick one favorite!
I love a bright orange with grey. Or a bright apple green with grey. Not sure why, they just appeal 🙂
Thanks for the chance!
Debbie
My favorite color combination for years has been my favorite color of purple with blue. Since I’ve been learning to quilt however, I’m really starting to love aqua and red together quite alot.
vburr at charter dot net
i’ve always been for greens and blues. 🙂
thanks for the giveaway!
Forest Green and Gold // Rust Red and Pumpkin Orange those are my favorites!
Btw Kona solids are really great quilting fabrics. Their colors rarely run (even if you don’t pre-wash) and really hold their vibrancy thru the years.
Congrats on the feature, can’t wait to see your quilt ^_^
I like reds and yellows and am not sure why except maybe because you see this combo a lot in flowers. The new fabric colors sure look fun!
Right now I’m onto tomato red and a clear turquoise combination…
I seem to be stuck on aqua and red. Those colours just make me feel happy everytime I see them together!
Sky blue and yellow because it makes me think of a sunny day.
My favorite color combo is lavender and turquoise. I especially love turquoise.
Thanks so much for offering these great prizes.
[email protected]
Celedon and pale apricot. They are wonderful as neutral colors, a background for lots of other accent colors.
I love blue and gray, a very calming duo to me.
Hi Betz! I love pear and lupine. I have always loved green and purple! Thanks for the giveaway!
crimsonbruin at gmail dot com
I love lavender/light green and aqua/red. Pink and grey flash me back to the 80s!
purple green yellow – like and Iris – is my favorite combination
I love teal and brown together. Why? I don’t know! I think everyone looks good in teal, and it can be good for men & women. And brown is just so rich!
right now i am loving teal and yellow and red 🙂
My fav has lately become teal and limey green – reminds me of the caribbean!
appreciate the giveaway….
I love pink and grey !
My favorite color combo right now (it changes, haha) is a bright blue green with a dark purple-y blue. Think peacock feathers. Thanks for the giveaway! I’d be so thrilled to win 🙂
Reading all these answers makes me want to try each of them. Chocolate and gold sounds especially rich and warm.
But for now, my favorite is orange and blue. It’s a new combo for me, but has a lot of moods, mostly depending on the blue; teal brings a different vibe than navy.
Thanks for the giveaway. I’m really looking forward to this book.
wordygirl at earthlink dot net
I’m absolutely digging lime green, aqua and magenta right now. No idea why. It’s way outside my norm but just happened when I knocked a box of scraps over.
I love aqua’s and creams/whites, it reminds me of a sunny day on the beach at the seaside.
There are very few colors I don’t like 😉 I’m kinda loving beachy seaglass blues and greens with sand colors right now. Guess I’m dreaming of vacation 😉
I go crazy for yellow, white, and gray. Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite colors are blues and greens. This only recently dawned on me as I recognized that I am often drawn to these two colors together. A little yellow in there is nice too.
[email protected]
I’m not sure if I have a favorite color combo right now but I love any good looking combinations that have blues, greens or purples!
Thanks for the chance to win!
email: iamlilymunster at gmail dot com
At the moment I’m loving teal and lime green. 🙂
My favorite combo is that pale aqua VW convertible with the black top.!
Congratulations! So looking forward to exploring this book, and seeing your contribution to it!
My favourite colour combination comes from when I was a sweet young thing at art school and used it way too much! I don’t paint any more, but cerulean blue and cadmium orange still make me happy and sneak their way into various things I sew!
I love dark purple and lime green together. I am also loving the recent trend for gray, it goes with everything!
Blue (most shades) and anything really … okay, not pink. I live with 3 boys, but I’m pretty sure I like blue more than any of them.
I love all the Kona greens, including Lime. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love gray and pale yellow together because it was the color scheme for the first house I fell in love with!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh, the 80’s and the little green alligator. How I coveted them! I recall my mom buying little alligator patches (complete knock offs of the real thing) and sewing them to our shirts. It just wasn’t the same….
oh, i loved pink and green too! 🙂 i think my fave combo right now is turquoise and grey.
My favorite color combo changes frequently but lately I love aqua, lime green and bright yellow. It is bright and summery — perfect for this time of year!
I love lime too – especially with pink!
Pink & orange are my favorite colors. they remind me of a very fun time in my life. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love green and purple together. The colors just seem happy to me. My last quilt had pink, brown, and white in it, and that color combination wowed me. Thanks for the great giveaway.
My favorites are the earth tones…brown, white, blue…they all just go so well together.
Hmmm, I really love red and purple together with a little orangey yellow thrown in! thanks for the chance to win this awesome book and the bundle.
After the noise and bustle of a working day I’m drawn to the calm of oyster and mushroom. Or maybe I’m just hungry?
I love Steel! I’m always looking for new grays, and this one is perfect!
I love red, blue and yellow – all three together or any pair. Thanks for the give away!
I love red, white and blue. I need to get going on my 4th of July quilt (one day). Thanks for the chance to win. alonzoteressa(at)hotmail(dot)com.
I love a good crisp red and white combo, cause it always looks so “clean” to me … but I’m diggin the Camellia & Steel combo… might have to get OUT of my box! 🙂 Thanks for the great chance to win such a GREAT prize!
I love that you picked pink and green as a favorite color combination because I love those 2 colors together! It’s definitely a bit preppy but I still love it too 🙂
I love orange and purple together. I’ve been trying to work it in to what I do. For some reason orange and anything is the color for this summer for me.
I love Kona cottons! my favorite color combos right now are shades of orange and gray.
I love blues, teals, and purples. Can’t tell you why. I just gravitate towards anything in those colors.
I always love the Lime and Purple combo!
I love the idea of bright colour. They always catch my eye when I walk by and I have to stop and take a look.
Barb@Witsend
I like contrast, so light blue and bright green or bright yellow, hmmm!
I really like dark teal and a lighter goldy-orange. They make my eyes dance!
winterwrens at gmail dot com
I love the greens! I really want to make a quilt with just kona greens!
I like dark red with cream. I’ve always preferred the darker reds to a cherry red. It’s cozy. Thanks for the giveaway.
Alegria….so bright…love brights and I would then match with Tulip to calm it down. I like to excit yet calm it down…
Thanks for the opportunity to win the book and fabric!
[email protected]
green and green is my fav combo right now [usually just any green with any color] … any hue, any shade, green is my color and has been for 70 years. why? just because green is green, i guess.
I’m loving lime and fuschia or cerise right now. The quilt I’ve been sewing on today is that combo!
My favorite color combo is Cardinal Red, Coal, and bits of white. The red is my favorite blend and mixes so well with the coal (love dark greys) and the white makes them both stand out. Thanks for the chance to win!
Cristina
Pink & Green!! It looks so Lilly Pultizer.
My fav color combinations depends on my mood. Blue and green go together when thinking of nature of the sea, for some reason Ive always enjoy orange and purple for Halloween, and the right shade of blue and brown in a quilt is awesome. Then of course there is purple and black – go Ravens!
I love a lot of color combos, but lately I have been drawn to purple and olive.
Grey and Aqua are my favorite colors these days. Loving the solid movement. I really want a copy of the book and who can live without all the new Kona colors. Thank you for the giveaway!
My current favourite is lime and purple.
I like a rich brown with a golden yellow; just makes me happy. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
Aqua and red are my favorite color combination. Thanks for the giveaway!
Currently my favorite colors are aqua and lime. They are just so ‘summertime!’
Thanks!
[email protected]
Oh, i love yellow and grey together. Such a happy, warm combo! mehartman (at) gmail (dot) com
I also LOVE pink and green together, I reminds me of the beach! 🙂
I love cherry/raspberry & grey combination, I love that it’s bright & the grey makes the pink tones really pop. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite right now is snow and peapod.
My fav color combo is yellow and pink. They are two of my favs and I love them together! Thanks for hosting the giveaway and the book tour, Betz!
My favorite color combo lately has been green and orange.
Purple is always my favorite although right now I’m loving cool blues and greens – seashore colors! Thanks for sponsoring the best giveaway!
Hi Betz, I am just loving the combo of the aqua/blue/grey/reds right now!
I have several quilts going together in these colorways. Thanks so much for the chance to win some awesome fabrics.
Terri Shuffield
[email protected]
Azalea and Lime would love fabuuulously together! I think those are wonderful choices and ones I, too, might make.
My favourite colours are blue, white and grey. I think that they are very soothing together.
I also like floral shades of pink with cream. Sometimes with a touch of pale green added. It’s just very girly and fresh 🙂
I love pink and navy blue, with pink and teal a close second. Looking forward to seeing your quilt.
I love red & gray together. It is just a classic look to me.
I’m partial to aqua and chocolate. It’s a very calming combination.
Red and white! Thanks for the great giveaway. Someone is going to be very lucky!
I’m loving dark brown, blue, green, and orange – perfect for boy quilts!
ourbusylittlebunch(at)hotmail(dot)com
I love teal and mocha brown together.
Turquoise and green. I don’t know why… :-))
Hi, My fave combos at the moment are red and linen or grey and orange. I am also experimenting with differing values in the same colour which can look beautiful graded across a quilt…. Thank-you for the opportunity to win this amazing and inspirational pack!
If impulse buying is anything to go on – yellow & orange followed me home last week 😉
Actually I love almost all colors, if they are blended in a right palette. But on this cool summerday I would choose for a combination of Kobalt, Wisteria, Camelia and Sprout on a Creamy background. Thanks for the opportunity to win this wonderful bundle!!
[email protected]
Black and lime….I love those two colors together. I think the combination just makes both colors pop!
I love pink and green together too! I made a crib quilt using pink and green prints. It turned out lovely: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16439811@N08/3589167295/in/set-72157614107568301
Hope I win.
[email protected]
My favorite color combo is aqua & red.. I just love the crispness of them together.
periwinkle blue and almost-ripe banana yellow. Cheerful and restful at the same time.
Mine is Pink & Grey… They were my bedroom colors as a child… I’m still drawn to that combo some 40 years later! Thanks for the chance…
Love pink and green! Thanks for a chance to win!
In my life I surround myself with neutrals; I find them very calming and quiet which leaves room for my busy mind to work its best. Shades of white, beige, tan with some light green or aqua mixed in. But when I want to work with color I have one palette I find myself using over and over: fuschia, orange, yellow and lime green. Those hot, hot colors really pop!
My favourite combination of colours at the moment are orange and grey! Love it!
Fiona
Jonoandfiona@ yahoo.com
I just seem to gravitate to orange, green and turquoise.
I love greens in varying shades – guess it is my Irish ancestry but have always loved green colors.
First congrats on being selected to be in the book! Kona cottons have been one of my favorites from when they just had a few like black white and beige. Now they have all these yummy colors that so delicious! I’, still a purple girl but the raspberry and blues are gorgeous too.
[email protected]
My favorite color combo is Blues & Greens. They remind of cool green and blue ocean waters. – Thank you for the chance to win!
My new favorite is yellow and gray. This combination can be masculine or girly depending on how it’s used.
My email address is [email protected].
I am loving purple with a touch of turquoise lately.
My favorite combo right now is blue and teal.
My fave combo now is teal and blue.
[email protected]
Love color, but my favorite combo at this time is pink and gray! This was the color of my bedroom wallpaper when I was little.
I’m still drawn to maroon and navy, but lately have loved orange and green. Thanks! jilldotprateratcomcastdotnet
oops! please forgive me for hitting send too fast (and delete one of these for entires!) my favorite color combo right now is raspberry pink and slate grey.
At the moment I love grey with pink. But it might change again soon! Thanks for a great give away.
I like Kumquat and Juniper. I am thinking those colours would look good in a block.
teal and coffee
My fave color combo is Kona Snow and Grey. I think it’s the perfect combination that accepts any other colors or designs you throw at it and enhances it.
Right now I’m drawn to grey and yellow and I don’t really know why. I’m sure tomorrow will be something else.
I am a big fan of orange and gray right now. 🙂 Thank you for the chance to win.
Different favorite color combination every day for me…but today is cerise and ash, because it’s a summer flower on a rainy day.
I tend to like monochromatic combos in cool colors: blues or greens. Right now I’m wearing kelly green and lime. I’m also partial to turquoise and royal blue.
I love black, white & reds. It’s such a classic look. Thanks for the chance to win!
Just now my favorite color combo is aqua and orange. Not really sure why, it just makes me happy!
Brown and pink. I don’t know why, probably the darkness of the brown against the brightness of the pink!
I love any color combo that includes blue!! Congrats on being in the book!!
Melsdaisypatch at gmail dot com
MY favorite color combo currently is purple and orange..I integrate that combo in a quilt carefully so it wont be overwhelming.
[email protected]
Oh the pink and green is just awesomely classic! My current favorite combo is turquoise-y blues with yellowish oranges – whole ranges of tints of those! Thanks for the chance to win :)!
Today my favs are Aqua and Orange, but some kind of green is always in the mix. Congrats on the book!
I like blue and yellow. Thanks for the chance to win!
Purples and yellows. Because growing up my bedroom was yellow and there was a very large red bud tree outside my bedroom and in the springtime, when in bloom my room would be filled with a purple glow surrounded by yellows.
sowingstitches [at] yahoo [dot] com
Any one that includes green or red.Thanks for the chance!!
I love so many combinations but especially aqua with a soft green and a little bit of white too! It’s so calming and restful. Thank you for the giveaway.
I loving aqua, gray, and orange right now. I always love gray and I’m not sure why I like aqua and orange right now, but I’m just drawn to them. Maybe the blogs I have been reading are influencing me…
To wear I love cream,white and light blue,it look fresh and light -perfect for summer.In craft depending on the project I use all the colors but stay away from black,brown and any dark colors.This is so lovely giveaway.
Lately I’ve been drawn to the colors of a sunset. Fuchsia and orange.
[email protected]
I love plum & green but would really like to make something orange & grey. The new krona colors are awesome!
I love sprout and steel, something about how those two colors can seem to make all the other colors pop.
I love grey and aubergine together. Working on a quilt right now with those colors….with a little hot pink and baby blue in there too! 🙂 Really liking this idea of modern quiltis using solids…excited to check the book out! Amhalverson(at)gmail(dot)com
depends on my mood!
red/orange/pink this summer
Right now it’s anything with grey! I love it! Thanks for the opportunity for the giveaway!
I love the 50’s kitchen red and turquoise! And I love the idea of quiling with solids….adding that to the list of “must try”.
dwhitford(at)tds(dot)net
I love chocolate brown and pink … reminds me of chocolate covered strawberries! Mmmm….
I love pairing almost any color with a gray/silver or black. I think it’s calming and nice!
I think my favorite color combination right now is blues and oranges, because you can get some really brilliant play between the two of them. That said, I also love blues and greens in jewel-tones…
([email protected])
My fabric purchases would be so much easier if I could narrow it down to a couple favourite colours! Thanks for the giveaway!
I just found this book online and I’m super excited to go and check out all the designs in person at my local bookstore!
I love watermelon, raspberry and aqua because they yell out summer sorbet to me – yummy!
Purple, green & orange gets me every time!
Favorite combo is robin’s egg blue and beige.
Anita T.
I have an apple green shirt I will pair with a sky blue tank…”blue and green should not be seen” is what my mom used to say, but I like it! And along the same lines I have a current bag project in peridot, navy, and white!
Luv Luv Luv red and turquoise! I know it’s totally last year but I really do luv it!
I love olive green and pink. There’s just something about the soft, girlie pinks and a straight up army green or olive green that I keep coming back to. It’s an interesting contrast.
[email protected]
I like Yellow and Blue- it comes back to me over and over in my life and surroundings. Thanks for the giveaway. It looks like a great book.
blue and green are my favorite
[email protected]
I’m really liking orange right now, so I’m saying orange and purple. I know! Thanks for the giveaway.
[email protected]
Right now my favorite color combo is coral and turquoise…Thanks!
I love autumnal colors – so I guess red & orange would be my choice!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I know it’s so two years ago, but I love grey and yellow. It’s bright and calming all at the same time. Mostly, it makes me smile!
I love eggplant and lime! thanks!
It’s hard to choose just one but it’s probably a combination of blues and oranges–all the tints and shades.
My favorite color combo by far is purple orange and pink. Something about those colors together makes me happy.
My favorite color is purple. I love color because my personality is colorful too!
I’m an 80’s girl too. Pink and green.
I guess right now I really like purple and teal together – or purple and grey – very sophisticated to me.
I love pink and any other color – usually red. They make me feel girlie.
I like brown with all the colors of the rainbow. Especially green.
I seem to drift toward greens, blues, and browns and (like today – huh, that’s kind of funny) tend to unconsciously pair brown and green. If it were up to my mother, I’d be wearing deep purples and whites… But my favourite combos are those found in nature: the blues, greens, and browns of the forest. 🙂
So hard to say, but ONE of my current fav color combos is grey and yellow. Thanks for the giveaway!
Pink and Brown.
I love combining gray with pretty much any bright color: yellow, chartreuse, aqua. I like the *calm* it brings to the piece.
So creative! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love purple and poppy. They just play off each other in a nice, rich sort of way and kind of remind me of the last ray of sun after a hot summer’s day against the deepening night sky. At least that’s how it looks on the SE coast of Australia.
I love turquoise and lime. When I first got started in this quilting adventure, there only seemed to be greyish pinks and greens available locally, but then I went to my first big quilt show/market and there were bright colours everywhere – I was in heaven! I came home with a lot of lime and turquoise fabric and those colours always bring back the memories of the euphoria of that first market.
I love pink and green. I have quite a collection! Those colors just make me feel happy. It makes sewing time fun.
Love the book & can’t wait to try out some of these new colors!
I love green combined with flower colours – you can’t go wrong with colour palettes from nature! Thank you for the giveaway!
Lime and purple just has this spunky feel for me! Thanks for a chance!
It’s not very original, I guess, but I like blues and golds, sometimes with a dash of red. Although I am pretty pleased with how a string block in greens and golden oranges turned out….
I just love aqua white and and red together. It always looks so fresh and modern.
I love earth tones like greens, blues and browns.
If it has blue, its probably a favorite but I’m loving pink and red especially right now. THanks.
My favorite combo? That’s a hard one! I like brown and bright blue because they mesh so well together, but I’m really starting to LOVE the looks of grey mixed with all different colors because the grey makes which ever color you choose just POP! Thanks for the chance to win!