Finding just the right fabrics to restore a vintage or antique quilt can be a challenge. The chances of The Exact Match are slim. It's almost always about finding fabrics that blend in as unobtrusively as possible. This is true whether using vintage or modern reproductions.
Sometimes fabrics that blend perfectly into the existing set of fabrics seem to fall into my lap, but sometimes a lengthy search ends up with settling for the better of several options.
My restoration of this Lone Star quilt (1930s) serves as an example of the fabric search stage of quilt restoration. I found these two potential greens at Reproduction Fabrics, my favorite source. (I have no affiliation....) One lacked the orange accent in the original fabric, and the other had a red accent, maybe too bright.
