One of my favorite birth memories was a woman with 5 girls, having her 6th baby, take her just born baby from the midwife's hands, kissing the baby and saying, " my love, my life, my precious one, my treasure", to her 6th girl. Just sayin'...[/quote]

Was it a boy or a girl?

You might also think about using the school colors since it is from her students.

The one baby quilt I saw and most want to make is black and white with the words: eat. sleep. repeat. appliqued on it in a deep red/fuschia. When I asked my New Orleans-located DS what colors would be appropriate, planning ahead just in case they decide on having children, he said "purple, green and gold of course!" (Mardi gras colors.)

Is the teacher a cutesy-wootsy kind of person? If not, the poem probably would not be the most pleasing choice to her, and might best be put on a plaque rather than a quilt. (And if the baby happened to be born physically challenged, the poem on a quilt would mean the end of that quilt!)

If the room moms are dead set against primary colors, what DO they want? Would they agree to different hues of the primaries as another commenter suggested? Or to include the secondaries?

Those are the colors that came to mind first. I love using brights and they are great for children's quilts

When I do not know what the baby will be----I do a bright quilt using all the primary colors. My last one was airplanes on a sky print background because the Dad worked at an airport.

Toys, animals. alphebet, or just basic colors of red,blue ,green,yellow. I made one for a grandson of basic colors and put backing of print on back with the same colors and my granddaughter thought it was the cutest one she got.

I like not knowing what the baby's going to be...sonograms are not 100% accurate.
I love the idea of primary colors used in gender neutral baby quilts...my kids had those.
How many of the Room Moms are quilters? Tell them Primary Colors ARE gender neutral and FUN!!!

If YOU THE QUILTER does NOT want to make it for THEM in their color choice - it's YOUR CHOICE...:) Make it the way you want (primary colors with student input) and give it to the teacher yourself...let the RMs get another quilter.

Oh yes...involve the students. Give them a piece of of paper and those crayons that you can iron onto fabric. Or scan their signatures and print them on that printer fabric...oh my...what fun!

This is my very first baby quilt for my first Great Grandchild. Not the conventional kind, but that is the way I wanted it. a little bit quirky like his Great Grandma . :lol:

I too had my children before Ultrasounds. My daughter was 5 1/2 and I was about to have my second child. I was just positive it was going to be a boy...the first boy in my family of all girl grandchildren...how excited I was. But just in case...I slipped a little pink in the Blue Log Cabin quilt I was making for my new baby...and picked out the name Caroline. In the end...John didn't mind the pink in his quilt at all :)