QuiltingCrazie

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.

Dina

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

Nammie to 7

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.

Nanny's dollface

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.

QuiltnNan

same with me

slicksister

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.

yel

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

grannie cheechee

I've made the same quilt pattern in only two colors. I'm colored challenged unless my friend goes with me to the fabric store. The quilt is a log cabin heart pattern, and if I remember rightly I've made 18. Not in the same two colors. The guilds that I belong to are surprised when I show up with a quilt that isn't just the 2 colors. LOL

Jingle

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.

ghostrider

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.