I normally like high-contrast quilts, but Gerri Robinson had a quilt in one of the magazines about two years ago that was absolutely breathtaking - and it had almost no contrast at all! It was all 8-point stars in Robyn Pandolph's Somerset Cottage line - so serene and simple - and the quilting was gorgeous!
I haven't ever bought the exact same fabrics as a quilt pattern shows, but I almost did for that one. I will be mixing in a few fabrics from her "Beach House" line and I will skew the overall color scheme more toward the blues and greens, but I really hope that the quilt looks very much like the one shown in the magazine.