If I'm making a quilt for someone special, then I pick the colors they give me to use, then find a pattern I can adapt to the fabrics. I have a pretty good size stash so I'm not bothering to buy fabric anymore except maybe a backing or two from time to time but I now have a stash of those when I order one and find it doesn't work with the fabrics as well as I thought they would. So they may become fabric for the quilt itself evenually.