As excerpted from The Finishing Touch , By Kathleen Brown Ultimately, you will be the one living with your fabric choices. I have come to these realizations about the ways in which I choose fabrics simply by doing it. My students have forced me to analyze how I do this so that I am able to share it with others.
Some manufacturers print the colors used within their fabrics on the salvage borders.
These dots of color can be used to match coordinate and contrasting fabrics. There are some fabrics that seem to be able to fall into either group, depending upon which fabrics are their companions. When choosing fabrics, I try to keep all my choices for a particular project in either the cute or elegant group. I would not put an elegant fabric with a cute fabric grouping and vise versa. I like to choose fabrics that contrast with each other so that when they are placed together, the viewer can see definite fabrics.