Busy Beach Town Quilt Top

This is my "Busy Beach Town" baby quilt top, ready to be quilted.  It's small, a good size for using for floor time for a baby or for a toddler to drag around.

The Four Square patches create red chains in one direction, a safety green in the other. There are also 2 blue chains that blend in with the bigger blocks and aren't really evident.

It is a busy beach town!  Child's delight--rail crossings, construction trucks, fire engines, ambulances, Dalmations!  Maybe NOT an adult's idea of quiet vacation, but if you look carefully, you'll see some river rafting and a coupe sailboats in the large blue blocks, and of course the lighthouses!  So a little something to make everyone happy on an August afternoon in a beach town!

Busy Beach Town Quilt: Planning

I saw one of my neighbors while walking the dogs this past week. They are expecting a baby this fall and I asked when the new little one is due--soon!  I thought I had til October!  Time to make to baby quilt!

I know the baby is a boy so I was planning a Fireman Quilt. But when I looked through my stash of novelty fabrics I realized the blue background of the lighthouse fabric was a great match for the blue in the emergency vehicle fabric.  And I liked the tossed trucks in blue and green.  It is August--I must be thinking about vacations! At any rate, the quilt morphed into a Busy Beach Town quilt! 

With four patch blocks making a simple chain and larger blocks with the feature fabrics, this is going to be a fun, and fast, quilt to make!