Bailey's Quilt

My grandson, Bailey, age 14, visited awhile ago and while he was here he asked me a favor: if I would make a quilt for him for Christmas, or maybe his birthday.  What a special request!  I was really touched by it!  So, I have been searching out patterns and fabrics for him.  I have a number of "deer panels" and deer fabric in my stash, and this would be a great quilt to use them in.  Then today, I came across this pattern:

It's called Pheasant Country, and the pattern  was a free download.  (You can get it here.)

The reason this appealed to me is because the 5 pheasant pictures in the quilt are the same size as a panel of deer pictures I have.  Of course my quilt won't look exactly like this, I will jazz it up and make it bigger.  This one is only 60 x 65.  but the checkerboard and triangles around the center are large, and the piecing would go quickly.  This is a good thing because I'd like to have this quilt ready for him for Christmas.  With Maggie's Memory quilts in the works, squeezing in another quilt before Christmas could be tricky.  Maybe after I finish Becky's Memory throw....!