If I see a fabric that I like, I can usually mentally visualize half a dozen different ways it could be used. Then I have to determine which other fabrics would I want to go with it. Most times I only find one or two at a time for any given set of mental pictures, so I get those and keep in mind the others I'm still looking for. So any given fabric shopping trip will most likely involve several different projects still in the planning and procurement stages. Because I go about it this way, it may take a number of months (or years) to find all the fabrics for any given idea...and the final result may be vastly different from the initial idea. But when it all clicks the results can be very satisfying.