I am making my DJ in a classic older fabrics because I want to preserve the spirit of the quilt itself. I am going to go in order of the book using whatever colors I feel at the time fit the block. I was going to do it in blues and whites, then I liked it in the reds and played with the ideas of more traditional coloring and keep coming back to the original colors. That is just me, but I haven't run across a DJ quilt I didn't like or greatly admire.