Picking fabric
Im only on my 3rd quilt, first 2 were simple charm packs of which the 1st one turned out fine and the second was a bit more eek! Now I didnt have problems with the colour choices as they were charm packs so for the most part they blend together. This 3rd one is fairly straight forward again and its boring for me, I want to explore colour. And now Im starting to look at other quilts and thinking about colour choices and getting a bit freaked out by the whole thing.
I completely understand colour relationships and work with them quite well but for the life of me patterns terrify me and I dont really know where to start. Every quilt I look at I will either buy the fabric used or suggested but I want to be able to strike out and use fabrics that really appeal to me! Part of the problem is that I dont have that great a LQS where I can go and pull out fabrics and have a good look and whittle down a selection and its hard to do that process on the internet. So again I buy stacks of fat quarters and layer cakes and hope to pull them together with white, how exciting!
So tell me your secrects; how do you choose your fabrics.
Fiona (Fifi).