My friends and I saw a monochromatic purple quilt in a show once. It was a simple rail fence, but the most beautiful quilt there! We studied it to figure out WHY such a simply patterned quilt was the most beautiful quilt there, and decided it was because the maker used every shade of purple imaginable: bluish purples, pinkish purples, reddish purples, greyed purples, purples which were almost black, purples which were almost white, etc. All that variety in a monochromatic quilt made it so exciting! So when it came time for me to make a purple quilt as a gift, you can guess just what I did! Use them all, and more if you can get your hands on any others. You won't regret it. Have fun!