Angels Staircase Quilt

A friend of mine and Mike's old postdoc, Maxi, asked me to make a quilt for her to give to her grad school friends that are having a baby girl. After a week or so of going back and forth on patterns and fabric, we settled on the Angels Staircase pattern and It's a Hoot fabric by MoMo. It took me a good hour to choose which six fat quarters I was going to use. I had to choose from 40, so this was not an easy task. I am really happy with what I settled on. Here's a picture of all the fat quarters and the ones I decided to use on the quilt:

Once I chose the fabrics I had to cut them into 6" squares and 2" x 6" rectangles. As you can see below, I had the blue fabric as one of the main squares, but after laying a few pieces out, I realized the blue needed to be the accent color. I was lucky that I had enough spare yellow dot fabric to make up the squares and rectangles. I used a little of what was left over from Olivia's monkey and owl, so that was a life saver. Here are the pieces all cut and ready to go:

I spent about 4 hours piecing these staircases together. I had to piece the blue squares with the top rectangle, then the side rectangles to the squares and so on and so forth. I got into a groove, but it still took a significant amount of time to sew these together. I'm glad this is just a crib size quilt -- I can't imagine how much longer it would have taken to make many more of these! Anyway, it was well worth the time. I am loving the staircases. All that is left to do for the top is cut and sew the strips of white fabric that will border and go between the staircases. I need to order the backing and binding fabric, but couldn't do that until I knew which color was going to be the accent color. Hopefully I can find some yardage of the blue fabric as this is an older collection. I'm crossing my fingers.

Here are the staircases: