I have to hand most the credit for color choices on to the design department at Kaufman who select the colorways other than the Christmas red and green (which is usually my original colorway.) I started my career in the greeting card industry as a Christmas designer so card companies like to play it safe with very traditional colors. Kaufman attempts to carry their colorways over each year on the Holiday Flourish collection, so if quilters start a quilt one year and don't buy enough fabric, they can usually find a fabric to coordinate in the next year's collection. Kaufman will be pleased to know they are outselling Hoffmann. :-) Peggy