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Another trick, from an old interior designer:

Most prints have the colors used in them along the selvage in dots. If you find a fabric that you can use as a base fabric, with many of the colors you want to use, look along the selvage for the dots. You can then take that snip, with the dots, to the store and match from there. It will be easy to see if they are way off or close.

If you find a print, that has colors in it that you like, make a quilt with those colors and not necessarily using the print itself, just using it as a guide :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by katier825

It's probably easiest if you pick a focus fabric first that has the colors you want - for instance a busy print with lots of color. Then you can pick fabrics in some of the other colors in the focus fabric. Each fabric doesn't have to match each other or have all the same colors, but it looks good if they kind of blend together as a whole.

For example, if you found a busy floral with purple/lavender, pink, yellow, green, you could then look for other prints that have some of the colors in them. Like maybe a print with yellow and pink, or green and purple. Vary the size of the prints, larger flowers, smaller flowers, leaves, scrolls, etc. You can get ideas by looking at the collections by some of the manufacturers. You can mix and match. I hardly ever make anything exclusively using one collection.

Hope this helps! :)

I agree, if you pick your focus fabric first, the rest will follow along.

Oh isn't fun playing with fabric & color. Enjoy . Theresse

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Originally Posted by Oklahoma Suzie

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Originally Posted by katier825

I agree, if you pick your focus fabric first, the rest will follow along.

Also, get a color wheel. Colors that are opposite each other always are high in contrast and look fine: purple and yellow, blue and orange, red and green. Or use colors that next to each other, like 3 or four in a row: orange, yellow orange, yellow and yellow green. Or Green blue, blue, blue purple, purple. You can also throw in some black and white for a high contrast or metallic gold or silver, etc.