Originally Posted by
Steady Stiching
.... Don't do two lights or two darks.
I do 4-patches with two "darks" and others of two "lights" when I run short of squares of one fabric - I use up my stash and gives it a very scrappy look.
This is particularly helpful with theme "overruns" (I had Christmas fabric BREEDING behind closed cupboard doors until the door literally burst open ....) I made a lovely cream-reds-greens bed quilt using the Christmas Counterchange pattern in "Creative Scraps - Quilting with Bits & Pieces - 67 Beautiful Quilts to Enjoy" published by House of White Birches.