Project: B's baby boy quilt

So many of my friends were having baby boys, while I was pregnant with a girl.
So here goes another boy quilt. 

The approx. finished dims were given as 38.5" x 42.5".

Here are the fabrics we decided on:

And off I went (after using graph paper to figure out the size of each of the blocks).

If you look closely, it basically turns into 4 rows with sashing strips between each row:

So, then I sewed the top row with the color blocks and the white strips in between. 

After that, I did made the wider row into two steps: add the sashing strips between the color blocks and then sew the vertical sashing strips in, completing the row.

Then I sewed a row together with the sashing strip to 3 of the 4 rows. Next, I put rows 1 and 2 together and then 3 and 4 together.

Once that was done, I needed to add the border by doing the vertical ones on the ends and then the top and bottom border.

The finished quilt top:

After that process was done (to make the quilt top),
the real fun began to figure out how I was going to quilt this.
I decided to take a look at the original posted quilt and took inspiration from that:
boats, stars, and waves.

So I started by drawing stars on the yellow and green areas:

And then boats on the whale fabric:

Basted it pretty quickly:

And traced on an infinity stencil on the white borders and sashings:

I quilted the stars by adding a ripple effect:

I did a swirly wave for the blues:

A better view of it on the backing:

All the quilting done (back view):

A close up:

Quilted front view:

Close up:

All trimmed up:

I did a lot of auditioning for which fabric would be the binding 

and I finally decided on this solid blue:

I did a zig-zag stitch for the binding:

And then it went into the washer and drier to get the marking off:

I'm so happy with how this turned out. 

There are no limits when you use some math in your life :)