Jcrow, I'm like you. I can't seem to match colours at all. What I think are dark might actually be medium, what looks red to me looks orange to the LQS staff. I totally understand the need to buy fabric collections, and then i'm stuck with designs I wouldn't have selected myself.
Tartan, that's good information about the dots on the salvage, I didn't know that. I'm going to try to use that info today at my LQS. I need to get some reds today to try make a patriotic quilt and maybe, just maybe, I can do it right.