The trend for the last 20+ years is for using "reads as solids" and there is nothing wrong with that. There is a crispness you can get with solids that you can miss with the "reads as solids" but sometimes that is the point.
I'm naturally drawn to what I call "tiny vine-y" fabrics, but in my attempts to use large wild and bold prints, I find sometimes I need to balance them with solids. Sometimes with solids I am able to find the exact shade I need to use with my prints and can't find the right print to work. The last of the thumbnails shows a recent large print/solid project.
I do most of my work with scraps -- caution, solids can read as "holes" in the fabric when everything is busy around them and so I don't typically mix them with scraps.
But here's a top I did, all solids, and mostly with scraps although I did collect some more purples. My Cousin told me I should make more purple quilts so I could give them to her. This is a what I would call a "direct lift" of a traditional Roman Stripe from the Pellman's book The World of Amish Quilts. The "black" is actually Midnight Purple and each set of diagonal stripes has at least one purple in it. It's funny though the way fabrics relate with each other... so a purple next to a brown might look grey and a grey next to a blue might look purple!
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