University of Georgia baby quilt for a girl!

     I was asked to make a baby quilt for a baby who's daddy had played football at the University of Georgia.  Sounds great!  I made the mistaken assumption the baby was a boy.  When I discovered it was a girl, my mind almost blew up!  Black and red and bulldogs....how do you make a girl quilt from that?
     The customer wanted the U of G symbol on the quilt and the baby daddy's jersey # on the quilt.  Otherwise, I had total discretion.  Now, I know this customer very well and her tastes.  She likes quilts VERY simple, VERY simple indeed!  I made a pinterest board for us to share ideas.  She was scared of the novelty fabrics with U of G designs, but felt they were necessary.  The one that scared her least was the white background.  Once I knew it was a girl, my mind went to pinwheels in red and black with polka dots and gingham.  Fortunately, I was flying into Atlanta and driving to Alabama from there, so I knew I could find Georgia fabrics in stock while driving through Georgia.
     I bought the selection of fabrics I wanted, but knew better than to let her see them.  I knew she would freak just seeing them together.  After I had my blocks made, I called her for a preview before stitching together.  She was amazed.  The abundance of white settled her down.  She did see the fabrics laying together and told me those make her crazy, but she loved them in the pinwheels.  She also said she would have only had one pattern of fabric - either polka dots or gingham, not both and would never have thrown in the bandana fabric.  I saved the white U of G fabric for the back.  Got baby's name and daddy's jersey number both on the front.
     When it was finished, my customer was pleased with it and excited to give a one of a kind gift to the new parents.

A quilted pillow case to hold the quilt.

Tiny polka dots and larger ones together.

 I used simple quilting in a grid patter for this quilt.  For the first time I used Heat and Bond Ultrahold for the name.  I always wash my quilts before giving them.  I detected small places where the hold was not tight, so I did straight stitch in free motion around the name.
     The patter was inspired by Pinwheel Party, a Twiddletails pattern.  I saw several on pinterest and was surprised to discover several pins I had that were from that pattern, but based on the fabrics used had very different looks.