When I used to make clothes, I could look at a pattern and look at various fabrics and visualize how they would look.
Years ago, I could look through the magazines and "see" the quilts with fabrics from my stash, but the quilts in the magazines were generally not trying to use a complete fabric line, but rather the fabrics were chosen to achieve a specific look. Now I am a bit turned off when I see that a pattern is using one particular fabric line -- sometimes I just turn the page. I enjoy looking at the magazines where they do alternate color palettes -- it gives a different view of the pattern.
I have lived (and sewed) through the 50's, 60's and 70's and there are only a few of the color combinations that I am willing to revisit, so I am glad my stash will carry me through for a while.