One down, one to go

It's been a long week, all of my sewing being the ripping apart & finishing of this Flamingo quilt for early Miss Rebecah Jane who was born on Thursday instead of sometime next month. The bird itself is from a Billie Lauter book, "Guess Who's on My Quilt."

I adjusted the head on one and the legs on another, then played with their lineup in EQ which led me to a color change. These guys originally had a white background with the floral birds on their test run and I had bought the blue fabric to use with hand dyed flamingos for the actual quilt. But...the hand dyed pinks looked too similar to the blue "sky" fabric and a whole lot of the charm of the test birds was the floral pink. The color change involved taking apart 1 whole & 2 half flamingos, but I am really happy with the result.

The background fabric is a piece from my Mom, that explaining the tropical Hawaiian print that I would not normally have chosen, but it goes remarkably well with the warm weather birds on the front and was incredibly soft.
It's machine quilted in 1.5 inch diamonds (which went really fast) and bound with a very narrow solid pink. My only regret is that the width of the background prohibited me from putting a strip of blue on the left & right sides to keep the birds more contained, but it also would have made the overall dimensions even wider and it already felt too wide to me in relation to how tall it was.
I would absolutely use this pattern again, 3 rows of 4 flamingos would be a nice size for a twin size bed and I do have 2 of those upstairs that I could cover. I have plans for the dog from this book on a future project, but still have 1 more baby quilt to complete before vacation in October.

More quality time with the seam ripper is pending...I've changed the design on the argyle quilt too.