A Bee-utiful Baby Quilt

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.  My niece Elizabeth and her partner Noam are expecting a baby in April and after asking several questions I ended up selecting the following fabric.  The fabric is much brighter in person, but look at all those cute bees and text prints!

The pictures Elizabeth sent me to give me an idea of the colours and the types of quilts she liked were very simple patterns of squares and rectangles which led me to make the following two blocks.

I was just going to alternate these blocks in a zigzag manner, but then Margaret B-M from my guild happened to send an e-mail about some free quilt patterns by Tone Finnanger of Tilda's World and I had to make the bees.  The quilt blocks above finish at 6" square and the bee blocks were to finish at 12" by 13" so I only had to minimally adjust the pattern!

I sewed black ribbon stripes on the bees and I will either quilt or embroider black antennas and add button eyes to the bees as well.  I have had the blocks laid out on my design wall for a few weeks and haven't felt the need to rearrange anything so....

I sewed the blocks together and stay stitched around the edges and the top is now ready to quilt.

I even know what pantograph I'm going to quilt.  It's not bees, but it will still tie in very well with both the fabric and baby theme.