I don't know about 'valued'.... for color wheel stuff...
I try not to mix too many weird colors like orange and red :mrgreen: :shock: but at this stage in my life I'm having an ABSOLUTE ball playing with all the new colors, designs, etc that are out there for quilters...
I think this is a fabulous time to be quilting - I remember when I first started quilting lo these many years ago how fabrics were NOT at all fun and finding something different was impossible - not 'almost' impossible - but actually impossible...
Things improved some in the 80s and 90s but today's fabrics are wonderful.
When I find something I like, I get it (within reason of course, I DON'T pay elebenty dollars a yard for anything) I'm very fortunate in that there are actually affordable places to buy fabric here - have I mentioned yet that I LOVE SW Alabama :!: :roll:
I generally do not buy with a 'certain' quilt in mind or a particular pattern...
when I find something, I get a couple yards and if there is something else that 'goes with' it that day, I get that too...
then I bring it home and think about my 'stash' and what's in there that will go with those two or three that I just got...
If there's not anything ( :D ) then I'll look for something the next time I'm out shopping....
I'll do a 'theme' but usually it's a result of looking through what I have rather than going out and buying yardage according to a pattern or something in a magazine.
Right now I'm pleasing myself on what I get, what I put together and the patterns I use, except when I come across something that leaps up and says 'buy me' and make something for so-and-so..... or like that swirl fabric that definetly jumped up and said BUY ME in no uncertain terms LOL
Have you tried 'googling' on 'color values', light and dark colors, color wheels etc etc... there's probably a blue bazillion websites out there
here's just two:
http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/ss/ColorClassTones.htm
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http://char.t...olor/color.htm
I just typed in color values for that search...