Baby Safari, Finished!

Whew.  Finished with a day to spare.  It has been a quilting marathon this past week.  I guess I do better with a deadline.  Who knew?  This quilt has been brought to you by take out, coffee, Pandora, and Dadurday.  What's Dadurday you ask?  It's when Dad takes the kids out on Saturday to bond, eat tons of candy, run around like monkeys and give Mom a break.  You hadn't heard?  Well now you know.  Go on and share it with your hubby.  : )

Let's see, I started cutting fabric last Saturday at the guild meeting, finished up on Tuesday, made the fussy cut blocks on Wednesday, pieced it Thursday and Friday (with my littlest helper) and finished it up today.  I could not do this every week.  It was like I was playing Monopoly.  Do not stop.  Do not pass go.  Do not do laundry.  Do not do dishes.  Wasn't that how it went?

Let's take a closer look.

Speaking of Pandora.  This quilt had a soundtrack.  It did!  I am not making this up.  Check out the playlist:

(I'm linking where I can to a YouTube video so you can hear it if you want to)

Little Bird by Elizabeth Mitchell
Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles
New Morning by Lisa Loeb & Elizabeth Mitchell
Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
New Soul by Yael Naim & David Donatien
You Are My Sunshine by Elizabeth Mitchell

If I could add one more song to this near perfect list, I would include this version of Baby Mine by Allison Krauss, a family favorite.

LINKS:
Baby Safari, Beginnings
Baby Safari, Sneak Peek
Dadurday is real!
Pandora, Internet Radio

Baby Safari, Sneak Peek

Here's a peek of my design wall today.  Baby Safari is well under way.  I cut a bunch of charm squares from the fabric stack I showed you earlier.  I really love these colors together, especially for a baby quilt.  They are so warm and happy.  I had the charm blocks done and on the wall and the quilt was telling it needed a little something more.  The animals in the main Central Park print are so cute so I fussy cut a few and framed them with scraps.  It took a little figuring getting each one to fit into a 5"x5" grid.  Remember when I did the Fat Quarterly quilt along?

For that quilt, I fussy cut some of the Circa 50 print.  They ended up being my favorite blocks.  I like just a few sprinkled in for interest.  Kind of like Where's Waldo, but way better.  This quilt has to be finished by this weekend so I've got to boogaloo. Ha!  Do you ever use that phrase?  My Mama did growing up and I guess it stuck.  ; )

I hope you all have a happy weekend.  Sew something will ya?
-A