Hexagons Part 2

Spent a day to starch the fabric and cut out the hexagons.  Foolishly thought I was ready to sew.   Since new mom's theme is mermaids, I purchased Michael Miller's Mermaid Magic by Sarah Jane in the aqua/light teal color scheme and 2 companion fabrics.  3 fabrics could make a hexagon quilt without any of the same touching.  But when laid out, I was not happy with it.  Then begins the day long process of rearranging, then deciding I really needed more fabrics.  Went to the local fabric shop where I knew there was a good selection of Kona Cotton solid color fabrics.  There was a gray in the mermaid fabric, so I selected a nice light gray.  Then I found a match to the background color in the mermaid fabric.  I was looking for a darker teal to match the striped fabric, but the colors available did not quite work.  After trying several combos, I decided the gray just looked flat and dull.  Maybe it needed some white.  I had in my stash white on white with circles.  That should look good with bubbles and mermaids.  It was too bright and stark!  This is what takes me the longest on a quilt - the final design.  I can color all sorts of graph pages and hexy coloring pages, but when you lay it out, it can all change.  Here are some examples of what I tried.

Too monochromatic

Added gray and aqua, but gray just looked dull and dead.

Just aqua, so 4 fabrics - ok, but not floating my boat.

Kinda liking this, but don't like the way the stripes work out.

Threw the gray back in, still don't like.

 

Finally decided on this after crawling around on the floor all afternoon! 

I did have to go back and fussy cut some more of the fabric with wording so all phrases are complete.  The top will have the baby's name.