I made a quilt for my newest niece, Asha, whose birthday will be any day now (she was due last Friday). I didn't blog my progress as I went in order to keep some of the details a surprise for Asha's parents (although they knew I was making a quilt).
UPDATE: I just heard that Asha was just born today. Happy Birthday Asha!
I decided to make a quilt using the Sawtooth Star block (also known as evening star block):
Alternated with the Double Snowball block:
My final design looked like this:
Earlier versions I considered:
This one has a slightly altered star block:
I also considered making a quilt with the Friendship Star Block:
Once I decided on the design, I needed to get the fabric. I already had the brown fabrics and the cream-colored fabrics that I planned to make the star blocks with, but I wanted to match the green blocks with the shades of green that they were painting the nursery
Jung-Eun (Mom) helpfully provided the names of the paint colors (Tequila Lime, Pear Green, and Celadon Green) and links to the Benjamin Moore website where I could see what they looked like:
In order to translate how the color looked on my screen to how it looked in real life, I opened the images in Gimp and got their RGB values. Then I compared them to the closest equivalent on the color map I got from Spoonflower.
Then I bought greens from the fabric store that most closely matched the color map. This required some judgement calls.
Then I scanned fabrics into the computer.
On my computer screen, the colors of the scanned fabrics and the colors of the paint samples from the website didn't look all that similar, and neither looked much like the way the fabric looked in real life. But I was happy with the colors and figured it would be close enough.
Considering all the color translation uncertainty, I was pleasantly surprised by how relatively well the colors seem to match in this photo they sent me of the quilt in the nursery:
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