3.1 mood board

Ali's feedback:
The images put together are nice - but the fabric and color story are too big and over powering the mood board. Make them small and complimenting to the rest of the composition otherwise show them on an all together separate board. Also the images suggest some nice gray and lighter shades much more contemporary and elegant then your primary tones. 

My reponse:

I'm just struggling with the whole 6 fabrics thing. I edited the gray out because as is I could only get down to 9 fabrics. So I chose the colors that were in the plaid. I would love to have gray in there but is that too much? I'm not wiling to get rid of the plaid, so if i add a couple grays I'm up to 7-8 colors. I mean you saw my original fabricsplosion.

I'm I misinterpreting something or can i just disregard the 6 things rule?

I made some stained glass windows that broke that rule. My prof (who I butted heads with at every turn) said I could only use 5 colors of glass per window design, so for my thesis show I sorted and organized all the scrap glass in the studio and made two quilt inspired windows and used some of every single color.

So I know that limiting a palette is important, but with the right training and discipline one can break the rule of thumb and still be successful!
I was REALLY missing the gray when designing though, so with your ok I'll put it back in and change the color relationship in almost all the looks. I would like it to be mostly gray and black with 2 color accent on each look.