lily's quilt update

So when I last worked on Lily's quilt-in-progress (in January!) it was looking something like this:

Which I ultimately scrapped, because I just wasn't digging it. I ripped out those seams, cut up the fabric panels and made some flying geese, a block I've never made before. I was thinking I would do something like this:

I found this on Pinterest and don't have any info about it, other than it is a very cool quilt. So I tried my version of it for Lily:

I had actually sewn the whole thing up with the white side panels and everything when I decided I just wasn't totally digging it either. Sigh. So I got the seam ripper out again. Started looking at Pinterest again. Saw this quilt:

And thought, hey.

So that's how it ended up. Well, actually, I ended up adding two more narrow strips of the black and white polka dot fabric to right and left sides, but you get the picture. Mailed it off to my quilting ladies in Michigan this afternoon. If I were to do it one more time (ugh), I think I wouldn't have put those random polka dot squares in the white panels in exactly that fashion. It feels a little too balanced and deliberate to me. However, I know once it's quilted the contrast between the polka fabric and the white will be subdued and I'll feel much less aware of those patches. Or so I think (hope).