Quote Originally Posted by Gayle8675309 View Post
I would use yardage. I did a bargello quilt (still haven't quilted it though), and had to pick out 18 fabrics, 9 of each color family. I just went to a big quilt shop and spent about two hours pulling out fabric, lining them up on the floor and debating which colors went best. They didn't bat an eye at me...I think quilt shop employees are used to having quilters spend a long time picking out fabric.
I'd probably have him (or her) helping me lol My LQS has two employees, a man and a woman (at least they're the only two I've ever seen working there!) and they don't get very busy so every time I go in we have a good chat so I don't think they'd let me just poke around without needing to know what I'm up to this time lol

Quote Originally Posted by Wantaquilt View Post
Can you order your batiks from Connecting Threads? They have really good prices on theirs. I have ordered from them and was VERY pleased with the quality and their customer service is excellent too. Most of what I bought was around $7 a yard or less.
I've looked at Connecting Threads, but they don't have enough blues and greens I've looked at some of their regular cottons and I could probably pull enough from there, but it's trying to pick fabrics that's making my brain hurt lol

Quote Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine View Post
Look at Jinny Beyer palette, there are 150 colors in it, and sure to be 24 blues that you could get that go together. Or Fossil Fern has many colors. I got a box of 100 fat quarters, all different. These collections could help you get the colors to match without running all over the place.
I've looked at that actually! I'm certainly contemplating it! Don't remember where I saw it though, may have been Fabric Depot. It's certainly cheaper than batiks and would still fill the "not a solid" requirement. I didn't know they had 150 colours though. Wherever I looked they certainly didn't have all of those choices... Hmm. I think I need to look into this further... lol