Originally Posted by
PaperPrincess
I find a large scale print with colors I like, and buy about a yard. If it has the color registration dots so much the better. I use this fabric as a color map to choose colors for my quilt. Sometimes I don't even use the original fabric in the quilt, just use it to select the other fabrics. The fabric designers usually have better color sense than I do.
Jinny Beyer has a book out that says to START there - and then use colors that 'bridge' from color A to color B to color C.
Doing that avoids some of the matchy-matchy that can be a bit boring, but still keeps the colors compatible.
For example: One has a blue fabric and a green fabric - she would use a blue-green fabric as the third one instead of matching either the blue or the green.