quilting

When I thought I would be spending January/February starting Clomid and dealing with the crazy emotions that come with that, I decided I needed a project to remind me that, someday, somehow, I was going to have a baby.  The project I picked was a baby quilt.  As you could imagine, it got a whole lot more exciting when I found out there was a real baby coming (not just someday, but in 9 months)!  It has been so fun working on the quilt and thinking about our Little Kanga-Roo playing on it. Someday, I'll have a kiddo who can pick which of the animals on the quilt is his/her favorite!! How crazy is that?!  At this point, I've just got the top put together.  I still need to do a little work for the backing (it'll mostly be the animal print with a vertical stripe of the blue/brown squares).  I also need to decide how courageous I am. The initial example I saw of this quilt had an adorable giraffe appliqued on top.  I have never done applique and for some reason, I am terrified of it.  What if I mess it up?? At the same time, the applique was a big part of what convinced me to make the quilt in the first place. Sigh.

So, if I really do get myself to do the applique, which animal do you think I should use? I think I'll just copy the silhouette of one of the animals already on the quilt but I can't decide which is cutest.

And lastly, to satisfy your curiosity, I'm not really showing (at least not all the time) but pregnancy seems to make one bloat quite a bit more than my raspberry sized baby accounts for: