Originally Posted by Dina

I just had a similar problem with black fabric. After auditioning all of my black fabric, and the black fabric at two stores, I asked my sister if she had any "dull black fabric." She said she had about 9 dull blacks, but none of them really was perfect. So I just picked one that was close to what I wanted, as I thought all of hers were closer than mine were.

However, it turned out that I wanted some black for an inner border too, and I had used all she had. I finally just sort of closed my eyes and choose a black from my stash. And, you know what, in the final quilt it doesn't even look any different than the fabric I got from my sister. So my quilt ended up with two different blacks and the black background in my focus fabric. And in the final quilt, they all looked good together.

Now... I think that I stressed too much over the blacks matching. They didn't have to match. They just had to "sort of match." See the picture of my quilt....if I hadn't told you the blacks were different, would you have known? (I think the lights plays differently on black depending on what room I am in... and, now that I think about it, I bet they photograph differently too...)

Dina