Brady's Make Life Quilt (at the beach!)

I was thinking the other day about how I really would like to name all the quilts that I make, starting with this one (the first one I just called by the pattern name, because I'm original like that). Well, this quilt was made for a baby whose parents did not want to know if it was a girl or a boy- we didn't know it's name either so I just called it the Make Life quilt.

Well, allow me to introduce you to Brady's Make Life quilt.

(Brady is, in fact a boy and was born last Friday! Congrats to Stephen and Allison!)

Brady's quilt was made with a "Make Life" by Moda charm pack and a pattern from Oh, Frannsson.

I "straight" line quilted it (it's a little wonky, but on purpose) with the lines anywhere from 1/8" and 3/4" apart- this is the first time I've done quilting other than "stitch in the ditch" and it was much more fun, but took way way longer than I thought it would.

I used the Make Life text fabric (Silly Multi) on the back of the quilt (original, no?) and bound it with the same red (Texture Apple) as in the charm pack.

I hand-stitched the binding which I will do from now on EVERY TIME (my first quilt was with a class and they had us machine-bind it- it was so uneven and I HATED the way it looked in the end). It looks so much more... classic. I love it! I didn't have any of the apple colored thread, so I did it in khaki to match the front if I poked through (which I didn't!) and seriously, if anyone's looking that close, they have bigger problems than me not using the correct thread color. :)

I also labeled this quilt using Rachel's tutorial - Sharpie and all!- and I think it turned out great! I'm not sure if I was supposed to wash this quilt before giving it as a gift, but I did because a) I think the rule is to NOT wash it, and I'm not one for following rules and b) I was just too dang curious to see what that quilting would look like all puckery!

I finished the quilt on the way to the beach, so I thought pics with the ocean in the background would be appropriate. Plus, I lived at that beach house year round instead of just one or two week out of the year, so these pics let me make believe a little.

What do you think of Brady's quilt?