I recently made a purple quilt with 7 different purples - all purple - all very close in value. From a distance it looked like a whole cloth - but up close, you could see the different fabrics. It was exactly my intent and the new owner was delighted - it was one of those that evoked the thot that we're all the same, we're all different, we're all tied together, yet separate...which has a very deep meaning for her and I.