Jungle Cruise Baby Quilt

Finished the Jungle Cruise baby quilt for my friend Meghan this weekend, and right on schedule! She ordered it for a friend's baby shower this coming Sunday, and I needed to make sure I allowed for plenty of delivery time to NYC. I'm a little paranoid since the last time I sent her a quilt via Priority Mail, it took almost 2 weeks to get to her and involved angry visits to the post office and eventually chasing down her mailman.

This quilt was a bit of challenge because the couple is waiting to find out the sex of the baby, so I had to make it gender neutral. It's hard enough finding decent boy fabric for quilts, let alone fabric that isn't girly, but not too masculine either. I never realized before how much fabric incorporates flowers somehow....seems there are flowers in EVERYTHING...I think they might be repopulating like Gremlins and attempting to take over.

 

I loathe straight-line quilting. Seriously. I'll FMQ all day long, but when it comes to straight line quilting I'd rather take repeated blows to the face. But I felt it was really the only way to go with this quilt because it would emphasize the design. So I did some shadow-quilting and quilted along the zig-zags. I really like how it looks on the back :)

And for the binding I used a print from Riley Blake's "Fly A Kite" line.

I really love how this turned out. Isn't it great when that happens? Sometimes ideas seem really awesome in your head or on paper, but turn out to be a hot mess in reality. So it's the freaking best when you spend hours on something and it turns out just like you wanted...if only it happened more often ;)

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