Originally Posted by
crafty pat
When I first started quilting I would draw several pictures of my pattern and color them until I found a combination I liked. That gave me a overall view of what my finished quilt would look like.
I still do this. I have lots of patterns drawn on graph paper and colored that I haven't even started. Picking fabrics isn't really hard for me as I grew up surrounded by quilts my mother, aunt, and great grandma made, but picking a color scheme is the hard part because I like all the color schemes I come up with. The only quilts I would have trouble doing would be a neutral quilt, I'd be tempted to put some sort of color in it.