I didn't mention yesterday how I went about putting so many colors in such a small area. Basically, I choose a light color (yellow) for the background and then picked very bright (lime green) or strong (the reds) shades, usually picking two versions of a color. There's the red silk Trebizond and the red nylon Patina, for example. They are slightly different in shine and depth of color, which I thought would allow me to do two reds in a row but they'd not be too much because they'd be identical.
I tried to get enough variety (two blues, a blue teal, two reds, one orange because a lighter orange would not stand out on the yellow background, pink, two purples, three greens, etc.) so that Holi's underskirt would look like a flower bed planted in all colors of the rainbow.
Also, if you ever tried to color all the states in third grade like I did with only three colors, you know you need at least five or Kentucky will be the same color as Tennessee. In other words, you need 5 colors at least to mix so that you don't have rows where two colors touch or touch the same color on the diagonal row above or below the one you are working.
Other than that, just eyeball it and put navy where you haven't had any in a while. Very scientific, no? LOL
By the way, you might find what Kelly has written on her blog about her background color struggle interesting. Background color is important and hard!
http://kellysorts.blogspot.com/2009/03/background-choices.html
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
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