Colourful Baby Quilt

Below is an update on where I am today on the Baby Quilt.  I was not able to spend much time working on this last week, due to some other commitments on hand.  Anyway, you can see the quilt top stitched up now.   All blocks were sewn together into 4 different sections, then these sections were sewn to the central focus panel.

triple border=crayon pattern outside with navy flange/thin green strip

 I plan to take the leftover log cabin squares/half triangles and use for the backing in a simple modern design.  Stay tuned for more exciting finishing details.

INSPIRATION, INSPIRATION - OH WHAT A DAY

 I finally made it to the Brooklyn Museum last week.  I saw 2 exhibits including the "Workt by Hand" Hidden Labor & Historical quilts and "Gravity & Grace" El Anatsui.  The latter had an exhibit of monumental proportions using mainly bottle caps and copper wire.  Truly mesmerizing, and nothing like I've seen before.  The bottle caps come from a local distillery in Nigeria, then pieced together.

Take a look yourself - Gravity & Grace

Some of my favorites from "Workt by Hand" Quilt Exhibit:

Crazy Quilt, silk

Tumbling Blocks-about 1865-70/silk,velvet,wood

Crazy Quilt 

Crazy Quilt 1880, silk (1)

Crazy Quilt 1880, silk (2)

Colourful Baby Quilt

I promised my niece I would finish the baby quilt now that I completed the big project for Mother so yesterday I finished putting all the blocks together.   I'm really a free spirit when it comes to most of my quilting, whereas I will take an idea or a piece of fabric and build around it.
Step 1:
  In this case, my niece and I went to the fabric store, in Vernon CT.
My niece saw so many fabrics she loved, but the one that stood out the most was named "Noah's Ark"...  Of course, I started thinking about how I could use this and immediately came to one conclusion.  This Noah's Ark had to be the central fabric, and we would find other fabrics to surround it.   We then spotted this lovely collection of fabrics and immediately selected a few patterns that would work together.

Noah's Ark- theme fabric

main ground fabric

contrast

contrast

Backing 

Piecing

Crayon-border plan

Step 2.   I created some rough sketches about what I had in mind (please see below).

Step 3:  Cut up  1"to 1-1/4" strips of fabrics from some of the above, plus others in my stash.  Sew together.

Piecing and assembly of blocks takes time, so tomorrow more exciting photos to share.