Fiesta dishes - what color?!

I went to a tent sale 2 years ago and became overwhelmed quickly! I originally wanted to collect all the colors but I ended up changing to just the blues. I have peacock (retired), cobalt, lapis, and turquoise. I was able to return all the dishes that I had been slowly collecting and exchange them for other items in the blues. I just have a few pieces of marigold left that I bought online.

Why not start with one more color and see what you think? Turquoise would be a nice addition to the colors you have, or Sunflower if you don't want to stray too far.

I have lots of colors that I've collected over the years. I don't do placesettings, but rather salad plates in one color, dinner plates in another, etc. Right now my table setting is Scarlet, Cobalt, Periwinkle and Evergreen (old colors) to go with some snowman plates I have.

I have all of the recent colors, except the sage green. I think I've got 15 dinner plates in 14 colors. Some of the newer colors, I've just picked up other pieces. I think I have 17 colors across all of my dishes.

I have turquoise, scarlet, lemongrass, and tangerine. Then I went to the factory this past summer and added in shamrock. I love having the dish colors mixed. I would never want to do all one color. And yes, I would choose the same colors. They are different and go great together.

I have the following colors:

Scarlet
Tangerine
Sunflower
Shamrock
Turquoise
Lapis
Cobalt
Heather
Plum

I also have a few pieces in Peacock and a fruit bowl in Claret the new cor.

On my wish list is Lilac and Sea Mist

I've been collecting Fiesta for over 20 years (yikes!). I have a wide variety of colors. I think I have 14 place settings. I'd have to count. I have some of the pastels from the early 90's that my Grandma gave me to start me off to some of the current stuff. I skipped colors that didn't appeal to me or that were too similar to past colors. I get serving pieces in whatever color floats my boat or I find on sale. JCPenney clearanced some pieces when they stopped carrying Fiesta, so I ended up with several pieces for under $10 total (butter dish, spoon rest and covered casserole dish). By not being stuck on one or several colors, I can grab up things like that. And, I love opening my cabinets. My kids have fun setting the table, as much as one can have fun setting the table. I wish I lived near enough to go to the tent sale. That would be amazing!

I started with 2 place settings each of Scarlet and Lemongrass, with the intention of adding all the colors except the oranges. I am not an orange person, although I really like the way Poppy looks with the other colors. I started adding single place settings, but eventually realized that I didn't need more cups and saucers or mugs, so now I just buy the pieces I'll use, dinner plates, luncheon plates (slightly larger than the lunch plates in the place settings), and cereal bowls. I've started in on serving pieces now, and I'm sticking to my colors.

In addition to the Scarlet and Lemongrass, I have:
Cobalt
Lapis
Turquoise
Peacock
Slate
Cream
Claret
Flamingo
Sunflower
Shamrock
Plum

I think that's it. I divide them by season, for the most part, but some colors go with multiple seasons.
I have all of the currently available colors that I want, but I'd love to find Heather, Juniper, and Chocolate. A couple of place settings of white would be nice, I'm back and forth about the black. If money were no object, I'd buy more place settings of my current colors so I could set a table with only two or three colors at a time.

I have zero regrets, love all of my colors.

Is there a reasonably priced place to buy discontinued colors?

I started collecting Fiestaware about 5 years ago, thanks to the Peas I have either 4 or 5 piece place settings of all the recent colors, with the exception of Slate, Sage and Claret. I don't have room for any more sets, so I buy a serving ware piece in the new colors if I like it. I am not a fan of claret, so I haven't bought anything new.

I decided from here on out, I will just buy the jumbo bowls. I don't need any more place settings, and we don't use the mugs or tea cups.

I did go to the tent sale last summer and picked up dinner plates in black, slate and sage for $1 each. 

Know that many colors are eventually retired. Some colors have intentionally short lives; some don't sell well; some have been around since 1986. The color family themes often reflect decorating trends (so 1980s pastels, then jewels, then brights, now "muddies"), and don't always play nice with each other. Long way of saying be prepared for the selection - and tone focus - to change.

Me? I cried uncle after about 20 colors, sold 17 of them, and kept three. I was ready for a less chaotic cupboard, but I think even the people who like several colors can be happy with 4-8 colors. I'm happy with three and usually only use two colors together. Different strokes.

These resources might help you:

Colorama: a feature where you can play with the current colors

Blog: The Little Round Table The blog creator passed away, but there are years of great pictures of how she mixed Fiesta colors. (Be careful; she also had the vintage Fiesta colors, but usually identified them.)

And this photo is just for fun: 




ETA: Fixed Colorama link

I have 12 place settings -- 4 each of peacock (now retired), cobalt, and scarlet.

I have various servings bowls and platters, also in those three colors.

I have all colors, it's like a rainbow in my dishwasher! I keep them in a glass medicine cabinet that I got at Ikea. I really love the multiple colors. I don't regret it.

I have 2 each of tangerine, sunflower, poppy, lemongrass, plum and turquoise.  DD keeps getting me serving pieces in different colors - peacock, shamrock and lapis, but I don't plan to get those colors.  I almost got paprika and sage for Thanksgiving colors but decided not to because then I would need those colors in serving pieces too.  I always get them only on sale.  Macy's, Kohl's, Belk and Penney's have great prices, use coupons and Ebates for bigger savings.  Macy's, I've found, wraps them the best when shipping.  I just added the luncheon plates and am glad that I did (except I can no longer get plum.)  I've been collecting for a year.

I love the rainbow of colors and they make me happy.  Can't wait to see what the new color(s) will be.

Happy collecting.  

(For Christmas, I still love my Pfaltzgraff Winterberry.) 

I am trying to find a sage large kitchen cannister. None of the department stores I have looked at on line have that color. Any ideas? Thanks!