Lego Bricks and Bear

I recently finished a quilt that I designed.  It's been a while since I've designed a quilt from scratch...lately I've seen something that I like and then I adapt it to suit my desires.

Anyway, behold, a Lego Bear surrounded by Lego bricks.

I took the initial pictures and realized I had forgotten to add the mouth as I was looking at the pictures and comparing it to the Lego bear.  It looks a lot better with a mouth.

The bear was used because the baby announcements were Lego scenes.  Both of them had this bear in it... (picture link).  The parents recognized the bear right away, so that was a relief.

This was my first time doing circles.  I don't know what the official term is for what I did, but I folded the fabric over and then zig-zag stitched the circles on.  They weren't perfect by any means, but not too bad.  The colors I used were Kona key lime, corn yellow, citrus, coral, chartreuse, mocha, charcoal, steel, med grey, malibu, straw, pacific, and tomato.

I went with a maze design on the Lego bricks in a matching thread color.  For the teddy bear I put in loops as I thought imitates the fuzziness of stuffed animals.

This was a larger baby quilt than I normally make, and so the backing I got wasn't large enough.  I added some green around the plaid I had originally chosen.

(Part of the Q3 FAL)