Mandyrose,
Whether you use not own the following tip to choose your colors for this quilt, try practicing this trick to becoming comfortable with your color choices. While doing this exercise, try NOT to think about putting a quilt together, just enjoy the process for itself, unrelated to quilting.
1. Find several pictures or ads in a magazine/calendar/online that appeal to you.
2. Practice finding the 3-4 MAIN colors in the picture.
3. Using crayons, colored pencils, markers, or, better yet, paint color cards from Home Depot or Lowes: set out the groups of the colors from the pictures.
4. Decide which groups appeal most to you and work with those colors in a block, or pot holder, or other small project to practice getting your eye used to those colors together.
5. At some point later, after working with the first 4 steps many times, try adding 2-3 more colors to your groups -- maybe using the pictures as inspiration or even try trusting yourself to pick them.
6. Now, using fabric from your stash, pull pieces that work in your color groups, fold them into small pieces -- strips or squares -- and arrange them in an overlapping layer on a table in front of you; allow about 1-2 inches of each fabric to show in the layer, no more. Cover all but 1-2 inches of the last fabric with a paper, cardboard, aomething NOT colorful to keep you eye from seeing too much of that one piece. (Eventually this 'covering' step will be unnecessary as you become more practiced at this skill.)
7. Add or reject any 1-2 pieces that appeal, or not, to you.
8. Set yourself the task of making a quilt from these fabrics and I'll bet you will be delighted with what you've done, all on your own.
I LOVE teaching color workshops!
Jan in VA