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Some patterns do tell you how much light, medium and dark is needed. (The scrap quilt patterns on Quiltville indicate by that manner.) You can also, if taking a pattern from quilterscache, take her measurements of what is needed for one block and multiply by the number of blocks you would like.

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Originally Posted by Naturalmama

Ok, this is probably going to sound like a dumb question, but - say you've been collecting fabric and have a stack of 1 yd here and 2 yds there, a few FQ's here - and then you find a pattern and think that these fabrics would be fun to use. How in the world do you know if you have enough of which one to use?? Do some patterns tell you to use so much of a light fabric and so much of a dark? Or do you just have to measure and figure?

I do this all the time. Sometimes I run out of one of the fabrics, but as we seem to collect a "style"? there is ususlly something else in the stash that I add.

I do both.
to me the best part of quilting is choosing the fabric:)