How I Fabric 'Pull'

I thought it would be interesting to watch my fabric pull happen for my next quilt.  The couple that I am making the quilt for wanted mainly greens with a few rich colours, and generally small patterns.

I actually started with the five fabrics on the left.  One of them is a golden colour, the rest greens.

I looked through my stash (the first five were purchased for the quilt) and found these 'bluer' greens, and a fun geometic print that picked up the gold colour of one of the base fabrics.

More variety (and yardage!) required.  Two more geometric prints added.  One a very pale green, the other, the one on top with the grey, picks up on the gold again.

But I was worried that it didn't have quite enough pizzazz!   Back to the fabric shelves again!

This red with flashes of gold is perfect, and brings in the richness that I wanted from what I'd been told by the couple.

Finally, I wanted to add just a couple of larger prints.  They tie in with the red / gold reasonably well, but will also give that 'punch' that the quilt will need if it isn't to become too sludgy.  Shame that I only have a couple of fat quarters of these, but that should be enough to tickle the quilt into being a little more interesting!

Now it's time to get cutting and choosing the combinations for the blocks that I am going to make.  I love my hobby!