earthwalker

I am with the others....pick out some colours from the dinosaurs.....it will add the splash you are looking for. Great fabrics you have there. Keep us posted

Gladys

I agree with adding the orange and red maybe a yellow. Go wild...lol. He will love it.

Jan in VA

I think your issue with these fabrics is the lack of value difference. If you add some much darker values -- there's a great darker green in those prints, for instance -- it will jack all of them up a bit. Also something in the warm family as mentioned.

Jan in VA

narnianquilter

Definitely more warm colors, the ones you have seem to go together well and I think it's a great start but the overall looks seems a little bland. Adding the warmer colors will liven it up a little bit!

Wyldwytch

I like what you have so far, the only thing I think I would add is a red. Also a neat little trick to see if colors go together is to look at the colored dots that you find in the salvage end of the fabric. If you find colors the match or as close as possible than the colors will work in the quilt.

Rosie

nycquilter

I agree with those who spoke about a warm color. I am not crazy about your yellow-greens. I think for a child, they need to be more in line with the true green in the dino print. I would add the brick red color (almost like the color you chose for the background of the photos). I would also agree with those who think the blues are too grey. Again, you want more "true" colors to match the intensity of the colors in the blue dino print. This dino print is really adorable.

GiddyUpGo

Thank you so much everyone for your advice and suggestions. I got some warmer colors (an orange, a yellow and an orange-ish kind of brown). I didn't get a red though because (it's hard to tell from the photo) the dinosaur that looks red is really more of a pink. I didn't think my son would really go for pink, though he does actually kind of like purple, haha. I added a couple of other blues to the mix, too, because I think I will do one set of blocks in green, one in the warmer colors and the other set in the blues.

Anyway here's the new palette. There is one color that is a lighter blue green that doesn't really seem to go when you look at the photo, but it matches one of the dinosaurs almost exactly and it has flecks of that darker blue that is in the blue dinosaur print, too, so I think it will work.

Thanks again for the help! Choosing color is not really my strong point, so I need all the help I can get.

Dina

These look good to me! Your son will love his quilt!

Dina