This post is about selecting colors and should have been posted after part 1 of the Basket tutorial. I didn’t think of it until I was almost done with Basket tutorial part 2. C’est la vie.
I ended up wanting the fabric choices to be similar to the EQ rendering. May seem lame or small minded, but it is what it is.
![Stitch Blue](https://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DSCN0141sm2-300x267.jpg)
The above is fabric I used for the other half of the HSTs. I wanted to match that fabric, but it didn’t work. The stitch fabric blends into the background too much, so I had to figure something else out.
![Snowflake Handle](https://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DSCN0142sm1-300x287.jpg)
The above snowflake fabric is good, but I was concerned that the snowflake fabric might look too Christmasy.
![Completed Basket Block](https://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DSCN0205sm-293x300.jpg)
The above fabric selection is what I finally decided upon. The stripe is good, because it is a different motif than any of the others already in the block. The white also stands out a bit from the blues. If I had used a blue with a white dot like the EQ rendering then one of the others might have been ok, but this stripe works well.