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I have been asked to make a baby quilt for a friend's daughter. The parents would like green,orange and teal colors but it's ok to include other colors as well. They want it to be something the child can grow with so it can't "read" infant and it needs to be gender neutral since the parents have chosen not to know whether they are having a boy or girl.

Any suggestions or ideas for a focus print fabric or name of fabric line that might work here would be greatly appreciated.

Baby animals are often a good choice. Kids of all ages like them, the colors should work well, there are some really cute baby animal panels on the market to use as a starting point.

Star blocks are popular and a very safe choice for growing with the child. Novelty prints related to the zoo, jungle, circus, toys, or nature, paired with dots, stripes, checks or star prints and coordinated with blenders can be very gender neutral.

Here is one that I did: All different colors with lots of patterns and a few baby prints

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I also like a chevron quilt and they are super easy to make - you can adjust the size by the number of rows.

Do you like to use solids? I've seen some really cute quilts for children that have just giant X's or arrows. Very graphic, gender neutral, and not babyish.

'I Spy' quilts are always fun.

How about an alphabet quilt with cute animals. I did a teal and orange embroidery quilt a few years ago and the teal and orange was beautiful together. I don't really care for orange but if the teal is the dominate it will look great.

I had that similar request a few years ago - but rather than certain colors - it was Brights. This is what I did

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That one was square.

One QB member and I had chatted on line and she really liked it but wished it were rectangular - this is what I came up with for her - this one is 45x60

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I agree with Terri D.

Here's one I designed and made featuring bows (bowtie?) and hearts, suitable for both gender. Yes, I used thirti3es reproductions, but any style fabric will work well.

Jan in VA

What a cute quilt Jan!!

I am thinking chevrons. very neutral, semi modern, add some grey chevrons for a nice neutral.

There is a Riley Blake line, I think, called Giraffes Crossing. On target for color scheme and gender neutral.

I like most of the ideas presented. I only suggest using Batiks for the quilt, especially since they don't want something babyish and gender-neutral. They read many times like solids or tonal but they look richer to me as well. When I make baby quilts for people and they want something not babyish I usually go that way. Just because they can grow with the kids. I am making two right now for my baby girl who is going to be born in October.