Lovely fabrics, Iceblossom! I can see why the print wants to play. Maybe there will be a large piece in this quilt, as with Chilhowie, where it will be perfect.
I took another look at values, and I realized how extremely light Bonnie's blues are in her intro photos; I thought at first glance they were her neutrals because some are actually blue prints on a white background. I got out my fabrics and pulled my darker blues. So now I have a few blues that are genuinely pale, and the mediums. I did the same with my very pale pinks, leaving the lights and mediums, mostly cool shades. I'm at this point stubbornly sticking with the idea of using my gray fabrics for neutral, because it would please me to put them to use. However, that could lead to contrast issues. My neutral stash runs decidedly to the cream/beige side, so if I abandoned my grays, I'd probably have to shop for white neutrals or else use some very busy, colorful prints (this didn't work all that well in Old Town, and I ended up eliminating five blocks in which the neutrals caused confusion).
I really liked the look of that very blue purple; I used to think that color was indigo, until learning better during Indigo Way. I have only one bluer purple on hand, leftover from Chilhowie.
I plan to lay out my fabrics today and take photos to see where I really stand with contrast.