Part 1: Mini Quilt : Panda-monium

This is another post that I intended to share in July and never managed to come back to hit 'publish' on. I thought about deleting the time-specific comments, but I kind of like having the record of how things were going there towards the end of the pregnancy. For what it's worth, this was written on a Wednesday night and I checked into the hospital on that Friday morning. So, you all can ignore those comments -- because baby is already long here -- but indulge me in my moments of sentimentality. 

Okay, I know I'm supposed to be finishing up projects I already have in motion.

Or possibly getting ready to have a baby. You know, like any day now?

And I really was going to work on something. Or sleep.

But then a picture of the Fat Quarter Shop's free pattern called Panda-monium came through my feed...

Seriously, check out how cute it is here (links through to the free pattern on the Fat Quarter Shop site) and here (a blog hop example I found via pinterest, seriously, adorable version).

How can I resist?

So, since I was supposed to go to bed early last night, I only let myself look at fabric choices -- and I'm only going to let myself use stash fabrics.

Obviously that's more greens than I'll need for the few tiny pieces of bamboo... but I thought I'd start with a short list and narrow it down as I work. Two of the greens were used in the Hazel Hedgehog mini hanging in the nursery -- and the coordination might be nice. That tiniest scrap of green is leftover from one of the co-sleeper mattress covers, and it could be a sentimental inclusion as well. Then again, I might need something really dark for contrast, and well... the other one is just cute and has never been used (it does have little silver butterflies though, so that might not work in such tiny cuts). I like options.

I would really like to use the brighter/bolder orange as the background -- but I don't think I have enough. I'll measure in the morning, but if not, I have more than enough of the lighter orange. Or I might do something a little off-pattern and use both since it looks like part of the background is just a 'frame' -- I could do that in one and the rest in the other. We'll see tomorrow!

Um... unless I go into labor...

It's now September  October. And I'm still picking away at this mini quilt, but I'll share where I am next time I can carve out enough moments to get on the computer!