For my soon to arrive niece, I did four patches turned to diamonds, then made chevrons via washing, and used minky as the back.
Super easy - picked so her big brother could help - can go either boy or girl, can go with the current chevron trend or let points touch and have open blocks to design in, or keep them square...
Little Miss has blocks of pink plaid and pink floral, with lilac polka dotted sashing and border, with bright cheerfully pink minky and equally bright cheerful purple satin binding. It sounds bad, and it's pretty busy, but Momma and Big Bro picked fabric (he picked, Mom approved) and it should hide stains on the front. Plus, if you can't have an obnoxiously tacky, bright and darn right happy quilt as a baby - when can you?
Congratulations on the new arrival!