I feel your pain. I have been staring at my fabric I bought for a bargello for almost a year. I keep trying to rethink my colors. I was just thinking maybe I should do the local shop hop this weekend and try to find some new colors.

I really just wanted to share the absurdity of it all. :) Problem is, I get a picture of how I want it to look, in my head . . . and that picture usually involves fabrics which seemingly don't exist. Just finished going through this with a set of mixed prints, which was a heck of a lot easier than blues! Even still, it was a long time before I was satisfied with the combination. I'm only buying about a yard of each fabric, so it's not quite as bad as it sounds! :p

I wish you the best of luck, finding your colors! You can do it! :thumbup:

Your quilt maybe casual but your search for the right fabrics is definitely not :)

Kinda reminds me of a now deceased friend. She loved blue. But problem was, once we were in the fabric store, she would pick up so many with a teal look. Ask me if they were blue. When I would tell her they looked kind of teal, she would put them back> I suggested she just get what she liked and not worry about whether it was true blue or not.

Running back and forward as you did is not me BUT I am terrible at purchasing a set of fabrics for a specific project. A few days later doing another project and oh that fabric is just right. And slowly my initial set disappears and when I come to do that project no fabric left off to buy more.
I see so many brilliant ideas on here I must make NOW is the reason It happens. Keep giving me ideas I love it and the. Shop is a 20 minute walk away. So it keeps me fit.

Oh boy, do I EVER identify with you on going back and forth to the store for more fabrics! My quilts end up costing WAY too much because I keep changing out fabrics. I'm making a Tropical Rainbow, and I did that very thing - even cut strips out, so in the scrap bag those go. I'm on the borders now - wanted more colors, so dug through my stash. Still wanted more colors, so off I go to my neighbor's house to look at her stash. What a wonderful quilting neighbor I have...she gave me six or seven pieces for my border...I think I'm just about there...

Lucky you!!! Wish I had a fabric store, within walking distance. My closest one is about 20 - 25 minutes, driving. :(

Yes, always have to go and get more...no matter how perfect my plans!!

I TOTALLY GET IT! I've done this too! I tried taking swatches to the store with me, but that can get real unhandy. And I hate cutting into any fabric until I'm sure I want to use it. Now, I go to the paint store first. B4 I buy any fabric, I choose a bunch of their paint color cards that I like together. Then I take that to the LQS and stick to what's on the card (s) as close as I can. I don't get as many fabrics that way, but I also don't spend quite so much $ on gas instead of fabric. :rolleyes: And I end up with colors that really look good together.

What a brilliant idea! :thumbup: I should pick up some color cards and see which ones go with the fabrics, I already have. Then I can use those for reference. :) Thanks!!!

I guess that's why they call it the blues! :p Sorry, Neesie - couldn't resist. And yes, that seems just like something I could have written while gathering fabrics for a quilt, especially the part about noticing the good finds for a different project.

Same problem. I finally got a small folding ott light at Joanne's to carry with me to check the hue, which looks different under the fluorescent lights. Why don't fabric stores have an ott light station set up to check colors?

Because they know if you get the wrong color, you'll probably keep buying, until you get it right. :thumbdown:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's having a conversation with "Bud" tonight. After having the grandkids for 5 weeks all day, me and "BUD" have been conversing quite frequently. Thank God school starts Monday. Oh to the question in hand. Yes I too buy hoping it will match only to see it doesn't, we're just perfectionist and the pic you have set a pic in your mind on how you want it and we don't stop till we get it perfect.

BTW, two of my "new" purples (for future purple paisley set) are identical to two already in that set. Have decided to take pictures of all the fabrics, with my phone. MAYBE I'll remember to look at them, before buying more. :p

Neesie must be young....full of energy. That is why I started purchasing kits.........someone else made the decisions . Calla

I've been called lots of things . . . but it's been a lonnnnng time, since anyone has called me "full of energy!" :D However, I am 60 years young! :D

What if...you threw in a print with blue & yellow or blue & khaki? or orange?

Is this called, KEEP. FIT. QUILTING". No need to go to the gym just start quilting?

While that would look nice, it wouldn't fit my goal of all blues. This is just something stuck in my head, I want to do. Introducing another color would change the entire feel. . . and then I'd have to start all over, again! :D

When I have had trouble with the right tone (lately grays), I load my sprayer with fabric paint and spray away. Dry, wash and dry and I am ready!

Sometimes I get caught up in that kind of cycle, too, Neesie. And then I suddenly find myself losing interest in the whole project. Your mention of the purples, for instance. I'd probably put those blues aside for now and do the purple quilt instead and then go back to the blues. If I force myself to keep doing something that gives me problems, I dislike it more each time I work on it. For something that, for me anyway, is essentially a hobby, that feels like a contradiction in terms!

Ummmm . . . I don't have quite enough "right" purples, either. :D