Originally Posted by meemersmom
Directions like that do leave a lot of room to interpret them as you wish. When I see them, I just grab my scrap bin of the color in question and grab a handful (or three!). I made a red, white and black quilt once -- my friends's (recipients of the quilt) counted over 100 different red fabrics, and that was on a full sized quilt.
That is a good idea. It would eat up some of the scraps to.