I realized I never finished posting about the baby quilt I made for a family member (part 1 here). I did actually finish the quilt! Some notes below:
Front - I had some trouble around the dimensions of my piecing blocks. I had to cut many of the blocks down. It’s actually resulted in pieces smaller than what the pattern called for but I don’t think its noticeable.
Backing - the animal panel wasn’t quite as wide as I needed so I cut out strips of the blocks and resew them together to fit the size of my quilt better
Quilting - I did a clamshell pattern with a walking foot. Jacquie Gering actually covers the technique of how to do this with a walking foot in her book ‘Walk’. If you look closely at my quilt, you can see some of my lines for the clamshell pattern are a bit rough but it isn’t noticeable farther away (thankfully). This pattern ended up giving a nice effect to the finished quilt.
Binding - I ended up cutting the binding on the bias and I think it was the best decision given the pattern.
On to other quilts! I think in the future I will wait to post any new quilts until I’ve completed the project in full.