I also, cut out and pieced a quilt. It'll also go to Project Linus. I've been picking up animal prints at my favorite LQS. I ended up with a bunch from Urban Zoologie and some others. I started picking them up a long time ago, and then when I hit the New Years Day sale, I found some more UZ, plus some from other lines. All in all, I had 10 prints, and I still wasn't sure what to do with them. When I was lining them up to see how many there were and how they looked together, I happened to have the FQs folded into quarters and decided that they looked great like that. Still thinking about it as a 4-patch, I cut all 10 into 9x11 rectangles.
When I was starting to line up the rectangles into 2x2 quilt squares, I realized that was not necessary. I went with rows of 5, and divided them up into set A of 5 prints and set B of 5 prints. To "randomize" them, the first row, I moved the prints down and to the right, the even rows moved down and to the left. To see it more easily, track the frog print or the green-backed turtle print for set A and the navy blue duck print for set B.
I pieced rows at a time (chain piecing, so I ended up with 2 rows done at about the same time), then sewed a row A to row B, ending up with three 2-row sets. I sewed the middle set to the bottom set, then the top set to the rest.
I really like how this quilt turned out - the corners lined up pretty well throughout, it's a nice size, and I think that the prints work pretty well together. Now to figure out the back - I still have one rectangle of each print, so look for a pieced back.
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