Nilla: I decided to call my quilt DYNAMIC not loud. I feel the same way about my less than perfect piecing. If I had a galloping horse to ride by on, I would hardly notice.
Certainly not an expert in color choices but I did Bonnie's Orca quilt and for some reason the pattern didn't emerge. Maybe it was because I used mottled whites as opposed to the solid white or maybe the purples and greens had too big a range. Don't know but that's why I chose solid whites and pretty much the same intensity of the darker colors. The Orca is a UFO, when I finish it I am going to ask the Board to help me figure out why the pattern didn't emerge. The CS pattern sure did.