Baby Quilt Beginnings

I'll be making two baby quilts in the next couple of weeks for twins who are due in mid-February. I've got both designed, and have started on the baby boy quilt. Thank you Pinterest for the inspiration picture that led to this quilt. It's strip pieced, then triangles cut from the strips - very quick work, especially since I have a Go Cutter and can get five perfect 1.5" strips at a time. That's about 1/4 of the top, maybe a little less, I haven't decided what the final size will be yet.

This is a picture of the plan for the girl's quilt. It's a lot of HSTs and full square. The shaded areas will be the pink circles, and the vertical stripes will be narrower than what appears, but it was easier on the graph paper to make them a full square wide. Inspiration for this came from another blogger and seeing her quilt via FreshlyPieced's WIP Wednesday Link-Up. 

This morning I made what might end up being my bee block for September, but I can also see myself making this whole top before I head to Rhode Island in March for Navy Training. It's simple, but with adding a different color star in each big block, I think it'll be nice looking top with visual interest. I'll be making a similar block for someone else this month, so I may update my request when it's my month. 

And lastly, I got more comic book boards today, and have finished making mini bolts of my stash - this does not include any of the fat quarters that I have which are on the bottom shelf and out of view. I have 154 mini bolts on my shelves right now. I definitely lack purples, but other than that, I'm pretty well stocked for colors. I could definitely have more solids, and that might happen once I move and have my fully dedicated quilting room.