This is why I love precuts! I get out of my box and buy a layer cake of something different. I just made a quilt out of yellows, greens, orange and aqua. I'm drawn to fabric by holly Taylor for moda.

Usually I stick with "tried and true" but sometimes I venture out a bit. I really like my "tried and true" colors...and patters...so it is hard for me.

Dina

I also like to give myself challenges - use only what I have on hand, only sale fabric, or must be scrappy - whatever makes me think outside the box. I like to work with old fashioned fabrics, brights, really wild prints. I bounce from one to the other. Right now I'm working on a civil war quilt, a hand embellished quilt, and a block of the month quilt. Rarely do I follow the color suggestions on a quilt. I have several applique patterns that I have loved collecting the fabric for. I really like the quilt you displayed - just goes to show you a person doesn't have to be matchy, matchy. In fact I think it is more interesting when it isn't. Guess that is why I like mystery quilts. They can really challenge a person to look at values not colors.

I like picking out fabrics and colors to match a quilt block I come across on the Internet for free. The issue I have is not wanting to run out of fabric for a specific quilt pattern I design and I end up buying more than I need., which is ok as I end up making another quilt different pattern. My tastes run eclectic- love vintage but also love some of the modern. Recently, fell in love with Kaffe quilt designs and colors.

same with me

I know what I like. I know what I don't like. I don't want to challenge myself as far as pattern difficulty goes. I've found what I like and I stick with it. I sell quilts but I only sell them pre-made. I don't "take orders". That way I can make what I want in the colors I want. Anything else would take the pleasure right out of it.

they tell me i am always outside the box...lol

I am trying to use most of my large stash and just use the colors I have. I use a lot of green, brown and yellows or gold.

I've never been in the box, any box...way too confining. :) Learning something new with each quilt I make is a very high priority for me. It's pretty much the reason I quilt.

I don't use other people's patterns and seldom use my own more than once, never without changes of some kind. I have a habit of designing quilts without thinking about how to construct them until afterwards, so I usually sew by the seat of my pants. So far, it's always worked out.