While planning the quilts in my first post, I was totally shocked how long it took me to find seven shades of green that liked each other. I think I stressed over the choices for about two months before I had enough. I needed a pair of fresh eyes. A friend of mine, an artistic Montessori teacher, fixed it in about two minutes. She fiddled around with about ten fat quarters I had chosen and pulled out the most pleasing little palette, just like that. And dang, she nailed it.
Green can be hard to work with. I thought I had the worst behind me until I went to my stash to get solid white background fabric. I had four shades of white in my stash! Some was fabric meant to be dyed, some Kona cotton, and some just random. That all got worked out and I chose to work with Robert Kaufman's white Kona cotton. Easy, peasy.
To save myself a future headache I ordered a Kona cotton color card from Purl. I knew I would need it as a reference tool and what I got was a color dreamland. And gosh, there are multiple shades of white.
The collection consists of 196 colors, yes 196. I am now addicted to this stuff, like the quilt shop is not already a problem for me.
