Airplane baby quilt

All finished! I love how this one turned out!

So sticking with the airplane theme from my last post, I thought I would share this quilt with you all. I did the quilt for a soon-to-be nephew, who's ETA is the middle of July. It's not my design at all, but I did make some changes so that the finished quilt is a baby sized one, not full-size. So I will share what I changed.
Firstly, to get you started, here is the link to buy the original pattern. I bought it to use the airplanes mostly. And now it will live on my computer forever, so I can use it again and again. Also. I know that in my search for this pattern, I did find other quilters who had decided to just wing it, and made up their own airplane. Kudos to them, really. But this is one time that I feel like my money on this pattern was well spent. And there is an adorable quilt to prove it!
Amelia Quilt Pattern

I actually found the quilt because I stumbled across this video tutorial on how to piece the block on Pinterest. If you have never done paper piecing I highly recommend the video. This was my first time trying this particular method and I found it super helpful.
Airplane Block Video

Now that you have access to the pattern, and know a little bit of what I'm talking about, here's what I did to get my quilt the way it turned out.
 You need:

• 16 Airplane blocks from Amelia pattern.  Because I did mine mostly from fabric remnants, I really have no idea how much you would actually need. One fat quarter will get you several planes/backgrounds though. If that helps at all.
•  3/4 (0.75) yards of fabric for sashings. From this you will cut:
• 12- 7.5"x2.5" rectangles (these go between the blocks, vertically to make rows)
• 5- 36"x 2.5" strips (these go between the rows of assembled blocks and small sashing pieces, plus one strip at the very top and bottom each.)
• 2- 40" x 2.5 strips. These go to the sides of the blocks and sashing rows. Hopefully that makes sense.
• 1/3 (0.33) yards of fabric for the border (this is the darker blue on my quilt) From this, you will cut:
• 2- 40" x 2.5" strips. These will go at the top and bottom of the quilt.
• 2- 44"x 2.5" strips. These go to the sides to finish up the outside border.
• 1 3/4 (1.75) yard fabric for backing and binding ( I usually do a 2" binding, but I had plenty of fabric left to do more!)
• + batting to finish

I like to cut my sashing pieces and borders a little bit long, just in case my math is off a little bit. That being said, trim things down before you start adding more pieces around the edge! After this, it's just baste, quilt as desired, and then finish your binding!
 I stitched in the ditch around each individual block and then around each plane. On the sashing and border I did a 1" diagonal grid. But because the finished blocks are 7" and I was trying to stay square with the blocks, my grid got a little wonky in some places!

A close-up

As always, let me know if there are any questions and I will try my best to help out!  Whether you are looking at this post for the eye-candy, or are going to give this pattern a try! Happy quilting!