Wildlife Quilt for Lance

I know, I know.  My design wall hasn't been cleared for even a single day yet, and here I go with something new.  I'm gonna TRY to get this new project done for Christmas.  I think I can, I think I can!

I have wanted to make a quilt for Bob's son, Lance, for awhile now.  He is an avid hunter.  Deer, turkey, fish.  Shotguns, rifles, bow and arrows.  So that being said, a wildlife theme is perfect for this project, AND I have lots of fabrics already that will work.  Fabrics left over from past wildlife quilt projects, some of which I never even used yet!  I winnow and sifted through the STASH and pulled all the possibilities.  WOW.  I have a LOT of fabric!

  The pattern I want to use is a modified Storm at Sea, something like this.  These are 12 inch blocks, with a 6-inch pieced border to extend the pattern a little further out.  Like with Max's quilt, my eye wants to see a finished circle!  If it goes as planned, it will finish off around 72 x 96".  It should go fast, because, the blocks are large, and each block doesn't have too many patches.  I am hoping it will look good and not too "empty."  The yellow square in the 12 square-in-square blocks is where I will put 12 wildlife pictures. My prints are all leaves, tree bark, trees, etc.  I'm hoping all my selections will look good together once the quilt is done.  I'm not very good at mixing color combinations.  The large diamonds that form each circle will each be a separate fabric (I might have to repeat a couple fabrics.) so the circles are more pronounced.  It will look more like this picture I think:
The 4 smaller square in a square blocks will have some sort of green as a background.  Different greens I think.  Originally I thought all the same green, but after having made one square to try it out, I think each of the 4 small squares will be backed in the same green, so it will look like one larger green block with 4 small featured "leafy tree prints," which are tan or brown. I have a lot of green leafy batiks.  A lot of this quilt is still in the thinking-stage, and so things are subject to change as the quilt evolves during the sewing process.

 From the deer panels that I have, I was able to find and fussy-cut  12 six inch pictures.  I'm really glad I could work out all deer, and not have to use a moose or a bear picture just to fill out 12 blocks!  I'm glad to have something on my design wall again.  I have so many quilt kits I need to do, but this quilt come first!  I hope Lance will like it!