I'm still "working" on color choices. It's not that I'm worried about what others may think but I just don't feel confident with color, although getting better. I had to laugh, one day in my LQS I was asking the owner for color ideas and she was trying to encourage me to make my own choices. She said to me, did anyone help you get dressed today, because you look pretty darn good. We had a good laugh about that. Anyway, I have also discovered what Basketman said and I have started taking pictures of my color choices in the stores when I'm having trouble deciding. It really helps.

I'm very confident in my color choices. One thing that I think people get hung up on is trying to perfectly "match" colors. It's less frustrating to find something that "blends well" rather than trying to match. Not all fabrics have to be "pretty" If you throw a few plain or drab ones in, it makes the others shine more. :)

I had a bad color choice experience with a mystery quilt and have decided not to do any more of them.

I'd say, on a 1-10 scale, I'm confident at about an 8.

Don't ask me to rate my math skills.

I only care about who will like my quilt color choices if I'm making it for them, because if someone were gifting me with one, I'd hope they'd consider my tastes.

I spend weeks tweaking a group of fabrics until they feel right to me. I never use precuts as a group because they are too matchy for me. Similarly, I find most random scrap quilts to be too jarring and busy. My chance of making a Bonnie Hunter quilt is zero. The word "pop" is not on my radar. It's a visceral reaction, I think. The colors need to "sing." Sometimes I am going for a 2-color scheme and fine-tune the group, moving fabrics in and out, adding occasional edgy ones, until they begin to vibrate. Sometimes I am going for a soft glow.. My piecing is pretty simple and my quilting very basic. They have to be, given all the time I spend on the front end. :).

Hugs,
Charlotte

I like most colors. Sometimes I see a quilt and think "what were they thinking?" I will show it to my husband and he will say "whats wrong with that? I like it." He will pick out fabric, bring it to me and I think its ugly. So buy and make what you like. Some will hate it and some will think it's gorgeous. He wants a black and white quilt. I said too boring so am making a pineapple quilt with Gayleen Fitzgeralds pineapple ruler in black and white with red in the center. I now think I should have left out the red since it's for him.

Mine is good. I know what I like, I know what I don't like, and life is too short to try to make something I don't like work.

One of the reasons I have EQ--I can scan fabrics to see how they look in the design before making the first cut.

I used to think I was good with colors, until I started quilting! It's like herding cats - you get most of them together, then one or two run for it! After a few that I just didn't like, I started having my husband take a second look for me. Turns out his color sense is much better than mine, so if I'm hesitating over a color, I'll usually use what he picked out.

as long as I like the colors, I don't care what anyone else likes or thinks