Second baby quilt

I am nearly finished with the second baby quilt I have started. My friend Julia is pregnant with her first, due in early October. She has no idea I am making it, and every time she comes over I have to frantically hide all evidence of it.

I got the idea for this quilt from Kaffe Fasset's book "Passionate Patchwork". I think the pattern is Pastel Bubbles. I wanted bright colors, and the pattern he had worked better for lighter, more muted colors. His pattern called for rows of pinwheels, as well as the center section with circles and the four-square blocks with circles. I made enough pinwheels to add another row of them all around, but it looked way too crazy. And, the quilt seemed big enough without the extra row. So now I have 30+ pinwheel blocks, but I will find something to do with them.


This picture doesn't show the quilting very well. I will have to take more at an angle. I am nearly done with all the hand quilting, and only have part of one edge to finish on the border. Its been so hot though, that I haven't worked on it all lately.