FMQ - Red Bird and Another Giraffe!

I had fun quilting two more SuzyBee Growth Charts recently.

The "Bird Chart" (below) was finished in November -- and was a gift for our great niece for her 1st Birthday!   She just loved it -- it was so much fun to quilt.

It is by far my favorite of the three Suzybee Charts!  I wonder why ??

You can see the others that I quilted here==> Mary had a Little Lamb and here==> Giraffe for Eric

For the Bird Chart I did not have coordinating fabric -- so I pulled the border and binding from my stash -- and it worked out fine !

I decided to minimize the quilting on the birds themselves. 

With all the pretty circles in the fabric -- I couldn't resist but to quilt circles for the background!

I'm in the hang of making ground for the birds & giraffes.. it's fun!

Finished Chart !!

Here is the 2nd Giraffe Chart that I've quilted.  Thank goodness Christmas with our kids and grandkids was delayed until Dec 30th -- it gave me time to finish a few projects!

This one was for our Grandson Zachary -- when I held him up to it - he just kept petting the giraffe face... so cute !  

This giraffe went much faster than the first one I quilted for my sister to give to her Grandson Eric.

Can you tell I love to do echo quilting ?  I struggle with leaving the rest of the background unquilted.

I did much less quilting of the body this time - I think the little stipple worked out fine ?  Do you ?

So what do you think ?   I still consider my self new to this....
I'm always looking for opinions -- would you have quilted more of the background?
Made different choices ?

Feedback is always welcome & appreciated.

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Hugs,
Karen