I'm no color expert but some places that you can get color help is from nature, a designer's collection of fabric works great, and if you choose a main fabric print , take lights and darks of some of the colors ...that can really make a quilt sparkle. Keep looking at what others have done and learn from them--good and bad combos. I don't think that we are going to be totally pleased everytime and we do get disappointed but keep trying. I just posted a pic of a quilt I made from I think Camille and Roskelly;s fabrics...bought a layer cake and just loved how it looks. I would have been tearing my hair out if I'd have had to pick out 40 fabrics for that quilt.