Interesting, I just ran through my stash in my mind, and my stash is bold, jewel, dark, solid colors. No prints. The only print I have is a pink/green print that I have for sashing a quilt that is made of solid pink flowers and solid green leaves appliqued. (I have one other wip that I inherited with some cut-out flowers that are prints, but I don't think that really counts). My favorite thing, though, is large expanses of solid colors with beautiful quilting patterns.
My mother, on the other hand, loved bright, loud, awful color combinations all together in quilts, clothes, afghans. We all used to lovingly tease her about it. She gave me an afghan that I keep in my car. I told her that if my car ever broke down beside the road, I could just spread the afghan across the hood and flag down low-flying airplanes. :)