I have a very difficult time making a scrappy but love the finished product. It's hard for me to give up "control" so mine are definitely controlled scrappies. It isn't just the color that fights me, its the fabric content (can't put a Halloween print next to a Christmas print).
My good friend and fellow QB member Jennie Penny offered this advice. "Audition the fabric you are thinking of using by gathering them up and putting the pile on a stair landing or on the bottom of a set of stairs. Now walk up the stairs half way or farther and look down. The fabrics that aren't working will pop right out at you". This has worked like a charm. Many times I was POSITIVE of my choice in a fabric then found it to be completely wrong using Jenn's method.