Picking the colours is most of the fun for me - my friends even get me to do it for them, so we have a nice arrangement where I get them to choose the focus fabric and we do it together after that. I look on it as a time to teach them some colour theory and that's really what they want me to do.We have stages of "graduating" and doing it independently along the way. Perhaps you might have a quilting friend who can assist you at times?