Originally Posted by ghostrider

Here's a way to make sure you fill in color gaps in your stash. Do a "stash inventory" by making a 12 step color wheel with three concentric rings. The rings will be for value; light, medium, and dark. On the outside of the largest circle, put the colors (or abreviations) red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red-violet.

Now go through your stash and put a hash mark for each yard (or FQ or whatever measurement you decide on) in the wedge and ring that represents the color and value of that piece of fabric. If you decide to count half yards and you have a two yard piece of dark red, put four marks in the outer ring of the red wedge, one for each half yard of it. Use the dominant color and don't worry about what someone else would call it. As long as you are consistent, this will work.

When you are all done, not only will all your fabric feel loved because of the attention it got, but you will have a chart that shows exactly what you have on hand, and more importantly, you will be able to see where the gaps are in your color palette. And we all know what that means...time to go shopping!!! :D