Originally Posted by
Tartan
I think the more the merrier in Scrap quilts look wonderful. In regular quilts, I seldom use more then 5 or 6 as too many fabrics confuse the piecing pattern in my opinion. If you pick a big print fabric, the little dots along the selvages will give you 5 or 6 colours that were in that big print and you can use the dots to pick other colours to go with it.
This I did not know! I always wondered why the dots were there.... Thanks for this useful information!