Comments on: Thoughts On Emerald, Pantone’s Color for 2013

By: Beezus

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:57:55 +0000

I like green. It’s one of the most plentiful colors in my stash. But this color is not emerald green to me – too blue and too flat. Emerald is rich, like the greens of the Emerald City of Oz. I’m pretty sure that while I might be buying more jewel tones this year, this pretender will not be one of them. What a disappointing color of the year. :-/

By: Rebecca

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:22:59 +0000

My first reaction was that it looks more like an Olfa rotary cutting mat than a jewel. It reminded me that I need to buy a bigger one!

By: Kate

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:27:08 +0000

Boring. From other sites talk about it, I thought it was going to be a pretty blue this year. This is too muddy and I havent seen much quilt fabric that color.

By: Beth B

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:23:32 +0000

Funny I was talking to Jake about this the other night, and she was not in love with the color. Personally, I was not that happy about it, but yesterday I went to Macy’s and that color is every where. I did find myself wanting a sweater in emerald, but I don’t think I would like a whole dress in that color. I think it will be a fun accent color, but I don’t see it becoming my main color.

By: quiltzyx/sue

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:28:47 +0000

If I was shown that color chip, without the name attached, I wouldn’t have called it Emerald. Because it has so much blue though, I do like it – I’m a big fan of blue-greens & always have been. It was my favorite color in the crayon box! Let’s see where we go from here.

By: elsa

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:34:10 +0000

When I heard emerald was Pantone’s choice ~ I thought ‘yuck ~ what an awful color. Everything’s going to be emerald green this year.’ Don’t get me wrong, I love green and wear it quite a lot, it’s just not a color I pick when making quilts or anything else for that matter.
Emerald should be a stone not the color of the year.

By: Sarah Craig

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:15:59 +0000

I love green, but I’m not immediately in love with the color Pantone is calling Emerald. To me this appears washed out, not what I expected from a “jewel” color. I loved Tangerine Tango – it definitely fit in with my own trend for the year – so maybe Emerald will grow on me. But I imagine I’ll be using lots of greens in the next year, just like always!

By: Jan

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:00:24 +0000

That’s my solution, always look at the source; this time a “real’ emerald.

By: Debi M

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:27:35 +0000

Well, I read about “Pantone”(whoever that is) from another blog. I’m not into the so called “Fashion scene” I like what I like and dont particularly care to have someone tell me what the “In” color for the year is. I just may not be in the mood to wear whatever various shades of emerald green there are. Right now I like Royal blue. So does this mean I wont be able to find fabric, clothes, shoes in the color I want? Who knows.

By: marthaeliza

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:40:53 +0000

I think it’s the perfect color for our times: ambivalent, indecisive, uncommitted. Is it blue? Is it green? The Girl Scouts moved to a more vivid green a few years ago and chose away from a shade similar to this.