Your post makes me wonder whether you have color 'challenges' like I do. Like you, too many different fabrics in a quilt is un-enjoyable for me. But I am 'profoundly' color blind, and some of the colors in the fabrics just fade away while I'm trying to piece the quilt with it. Most of the quilts I make use 2 - 5 fabric quilts, which seems to be where my niche.