I'd like to say that my color sense and what skill I have come from memories of my great Grandmother. Her quilts were scissor cut and sewn on a treadle. She used what she had but somehow they were beautiful. Some of it was from over dyeing with local weeds. If she wanted a mostly green we went for a this weed. and so.
you might mention the old dyeing process versus the new ones? there isn't much about this in my local library. and I also do not have a LQS.