I've been looking back at all the nearly 500 pages of past pages
of this forum. I've "copied" and "Pasted" lots of them on the TextEdit page, and discovered that my taste was not for smooth colors, but sharp contrasts of strong colors. I go back every now and then and edit out those that don't speak to me, and every time have found that what is left are those same strong contrasts.
Some patterns also come in as favorites, but they have to be not brilliant but strong colors, and any patterns have to be tiny. I think that's why I couldn't make up my mind earlier to a certain color or pattern, didn't know what I wanted because I'd never seen it. Now you clever and talented folks have trained my mind as to what is lovely. Thank you. At the age of 76 I now know what I like in colors and patterns.