A Little Background Here

I like making baby quilts using traditional quilt blocks, only smaller.  I decided to make a baby quilt for a boy using a popular color scheme--browns and blues.  To make the 9-patch quilt top, I needed three colors, a dark, a medium, and a light.

Dark chocolate brown,
caramel and powder blue
for 9-patch blocks.
Mottled brown for sashing.

 Since this was a little boy quilt, I didn't want any flowery quilt fabric and decided to stick with solid colors for the 9-patch part of the quilt top.  For my dark, I chose a dark chocolate brown broadcloth; for my medium, a caramel color; and for my light, a powder blue.  I found a fourth fabric which I'll call mottled brown to use for the sashing around the 9-patch center piece. Then, I began to make my 9-patch blocks.

Dark brown too harsh.

A sampling of the 9-patch blocks didn't please me.  The dark chocolate brown looked too harsh for a baby quilt.  So, I decided to replace the dark chocolate brown with the mottled brown. So, now that my sashing fabric moved into the dark fabric spot in the 9-patch blocks, I might have to find another fabric for the sashing.  You know what that means.  Another trip to the fabric store.  Oh, well, it's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

Mottled brown softer look for baby boy.