This is a baby quilt I did up for my friend Emily B. and her second child, Franklin. (You can see the one for Henrik here if interested)
Before she was even pregnant, she dropped off the blue and brown background fabric for me to use at my leisure-- not for her, but just for me to use as I chose. She said she loved it but with a new baby she just wasn't going to be making anything anytime soon. So I held on to it, waiting for the right moment--- until the day I found out she was pregnant with her second child! I dug it out and then promptly procrastinated for many months until I was finally able to find the time to pull this together.
I tried to use fabrics that matched the background fabric (ie: the fabric Emily gave me), and feel like it came out pretty well. I used some of my African fabrics from the stash (some of which were also used in this quilt for Zawadi), making some colorful panels to catch baby's eye, and centered it all around one of the batik elephants in my stash. I also rimmed it in some pine cone fabric--- the family likes to be at cottages and in nature, and I thought the colors worked well-- and then made some binding with the background fabric and sandwiched it up!
I hope little Franklin enjoys many snuggles with this quilt! The quilt arrived 6 weeks after Franklin did, but I am sure he will be enjoying it as the autumn season starts to unfold. Enjoy!