Wednesday, April 11, 2012

True Colours - Gingham

This week's True Colours Challenge was to find articles that not only were gingham check but also blue or yellow. I have to say it was a really tough challenge so some, maybe most, of my items are gingham-esque.



My first item is a blouse that I have. It has floral embroidery over the blue gingham check, but maybe it's actually a plaid. Does anyone really know the difference between plaid and gingham?


My next choices were all taken at the grocery store with my Smart Phone.  I thought perhaps because we are all thinking about summer that some of the picnic items might be gingham but it seems that floral patterns and spring green are the in-thing for this year.  I did find these napkins, although the pattern on them is really a basket weave.


I did find one item that had a gingham pattern but it wasn't really the colours I wanted as the green seems to be the predominant colour although there is blue and yellow in the pattern. And if you can't tell what it is; it's an ironing board cover, it was hard to get a good photo with the loose plastic packaging.



The other items I found have the colours I wanted but not the pattern so as I said they are gingham-esque.

Ladies summer flats
Candles

I hope you all had better luck than me finding gingham in blue and yellow. We had fun looking though.

9 comments:

  1. Gingham is hard to find these days.

    One of Oreo's ribbons is blue gingham. But, I can't think of anything else....

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  2. I had to look - you get the most interesting colours on this task - I had no idea what gingham was :)

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  3. You did better than I did. I totally flunked out on the yellow and white!

    Love ya lots,
    Mitch

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  4. OH I like that ironing board pattern! Nice choices!

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  5. Love the term gingham-esque!
    Think you covered it really well, and I definately want that shirt :)

    Re the difference between gingham & plaid - think that gingham strictly should be just white with one other colour, while plaid combines many colours to form a pattern as in a tarten.

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  6. I just think that you are amazing! I was trying to look for some ginghams at home but I don't think I can find anything at all.

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  7. Those are great finds and I agree with blue - that is a terrific term - gighmam-esque

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  8. Great pictures! I almost took a picture of our ironing board too -- but it was more gray than blue!

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  9. Now that is a challenge! So neat to see all the different kinds of colours/colour patterns out there; I hadn't really thought about it before.

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