justflyingin

I bought a layer cake...I suppose that counts.

Plus, last year while in the states, I bought several from the Dr. Seuss line. It seemed really "easy" to just buy from that group of prints. Easy. But I did it. Mostly I just buy the main fabric or two that I fall in love with and try to coordinate from what I already have.

quiltstringz

I do both. Most of the time if I find a line I just love I will buy a couple of pieces and then add from my stash or from another line that works. I don't often although I have made a quilt from just one line.

Jingle

I buy whatever fabric I like. When starting a quilt, (other than a scrappy). I pick out the focal fabric and pick out other fabrics to go with it. I don't buy any fabrics from lines.

Annie68

I have never bought a line of fabric. I buy what I like the looks of, a little or a lot, put it in my stash, then design a quilt around some fabric that catches my eye at the moment.

KalamaQuilts

I've been scrappy for the last 4 or 5 years, in other words if I need red I use the whole spectrum of red.

2 things you can do to help, if you have your gorgeous focus fabric and don't know where to go from there, go to the color dots on the selvedge edge, you can get some great companion color ideas there.

Or, take a swatch of your focus fabric to the big home improvement stores and look at the combinations in the little brochures below the paint samples.
Somewhere people get paid an enormous amount of money to figure this stuff out, and we get the benefit, free!

Speaking solely for myself, quilts with fabric from all one line put me to sleep. They can be very very pretty but they don't have the zing required to make me look twice.

needles3thread

I think it's fun to choose fabrics that I feel look good together. Usually I am satisfied with the results of my choices. Sometimes I buy a couple of pieces from a line & then have fun looking through my stash for others. However, I do appreciate desingers expert choices of go-togethers. I was happy when I discovered there existed 'lines of fabric'! I love going to fabric store to find perfect fabrics to go with what I already have.

IrishNY

All of the above. I've never made a quilt solely from one line of fabric, but I often buy two from the same collection and then mix in what ever I like with it, with no regard for the manufacturer or collection. I might add from my stash, which means it could older (more mature?) fabric or it could be something else I bought at the same time in the store. That's the beauty of quilting - you can do it any way you want!

Lori S

Rarely do I buy multiple fabrics from a specific line on purpose. There have been times I have regreted not purchasing other fabrics in a line as sometimes finding compatibles can be the "needle in a hay stack" search.

Jan in VA

AMEN~!!

Besides which, for me, a great part of the fun creative process is doing my own color/print/pattern work....otherwise I'd feel like the quilt wasn't really "mine".

Jan in VA

ILoveToQuilt

I buy whatever fabric strikes my fancy- usually I buy by color and pattern. I am not a huge fan of precuts and FQs are the only precuts I buy. I cut my own jelly rolls, charms, etc.

Anita