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I'm trying to come up with a baby quilt for my niece. Her mom and sister are decorating the nursery for her as a (Christmas) gift, and I'm trying to match the "decor" that they have planned. They told me -- greys and white, pale green and light yellow. Somewhere there's a chevron. Sorry, but these colors don't really inspire me, especially for a baby, so I"m having a bit of trouble. I saw a neat pattern with dresden plates made with stripes or chevrons in every-other spoke, so I made some of those, and then I created a background to put them on, but ... just don't think it's very interesting. What do you think -- here is the background with first one set of the "flowers", and then a second set. THe first one mostly matches their scheme ... the second one doesn't. I'm not wild about either one. Any suggestions of what I could do to make it pop? I would do a lot of "modern" quilting in the solid parts.

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