My quilt varies from the pattern in that those framing strips (the rust batik) were originally as wide as the smaller squares so they lined up at the seams. I cut mine narrower so more of the fish would show. At first, the offset bothered me, but now it doesn't. I've done at least two other baby quilts with this pattern - both had more juvenile prints - one was forest friends. The quilting - spirals in the bigger blocks and helicopter wings in the small squares was quilt simple. The hardest part was deciding where to travel from block to clock.