Many get obsessed about putting just the right combination of fabric together for their "give away" quilts. Mostly the charity quilts. Let me tell you about last week.
A local shop has a drop off place for receiving donations of fabric to be used for charity quilts. All kinds of cloth is dumped there - drapery, polyester, blends, cottons, 1980's and 90's cottons and prints, dress fabric etc. Various groups take certain types for projects - one of the churches take the dress fabric and use for their mission projects.....
I picked up a box of the mostly cotton quilt type fabric. I sorted in groups of three for rail fence blocks. I sorted roughly by color and print size. There was not enough for "pretty" qults but there was sort of a color and scale blend. We would never put the colors and prints together if we really thought long about it. HOWEVER, when they were made the quilts are wonderful. I didn't hear anyone say that the colors didn't go together but rather how wonderful the finished quilts look.
These will be going to Alabama and what may be lacking, in some minds, in artistic quality will make up for warmth this winter.
SO lets us up that ugly fabric and put it to good use.