Beautiful, Leslie! I don't know how you ladies come up with these great color palettes. Any advice?

Looks great, Mumto2!

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Very nice finish. I love your border adjustments and the use of the gray.
Kirsten

Mumto2: Great quilt!

Thanks, Lisa. I had always used Bonnie's color choices in the other ones I made, but the original Good Fortune really didn't speak to me. Since I'm a "winter" I've always been drawn to the jewel tones. Even though blue is my favorite color, I seem to include purple in a lot of my quilts, so I kind of automatically picked that to replace the orange. I don't think I can give you any advice for choosing a color scheme. I am frequently impressed by what others come up with that I wouldn't have thought of. Don't they say to look in your closet and find the colors that you like to wear to help you decide on colors you might like to include in a quilt? Makes sense to me.

Leslie

What an interesting idea, Leslie. I had to chuckle because I would look like death warmed over in some of the Civil War prints that fascinate me, LOL. Soft, dusty colors are horrible on me -- it's bright white and strong contrast I do best in.

Well, there you go! I suppose any strong color paired with bright white would make a striking quilt.

Leslie

Everyone's quilts look great. In choosing colors or even thinking about colors I think following this thread and Bonnie's blog especially when people "linkup" there mystery progress is very helpful

In good fortune, I didn't want to use the orange so I wandered around a shop looking for a fabric with 4 distinct colors that I liked together. I found one that actually had more so then I walked around and pulled one fat quarter of each color and looked at them together. Then I chose fabrics from stash and shopping that went with the 4 fat quarters.

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Thanks for explaining your process, Pagzz! I really can't buy fabric for the mystery this year, so I will have to come up with a palette from my stash. I have quite a bit of navy and red, so I think one of those (if not both) will have to factor in. Looking forward to the release of the intro and colors at the end of the month!

That's a great way to use a focus fabric Pagzz. Thanks for explaining your process. I love her mystery quilts and last year I made it in solid yardage instead of scrappy. This next year I plan on making it in "my colors". I'll use your way to get a pleasing palette. I hope.

Update on the blue and brown Smith Mountain Morning (trial attempt). I really didn't like brown and blue together. So I put the top in the Honeyville Quilt Show and Sale. It sold. That forced me to make another one. I chose purple and green and Harriet will deliver it to Essenhaus when she does her teaching there in mid October.

Since I didn't know if I would get it back in time for the class, I started another one.....a red one that got too red. See it on Virtual Quilting Weekend thread.