Baby Lincoln's Quilt

My sister-in-law is having a baby boy in January. This is the quilt I made for her baby shower.

This was my first time ever doing free motion quilting. For the most part it went very well. I got better at regulating the stitch length but there are definitely some interesting spots.

I made the pattern up myself but ended up being short a couple of each yellow strip. Instead of trying to find more matching fat quarters at JoAnn I just did the corner strips gray.

I bought the material first and then created the pattern so I wasn't very precise on the amounts I purchased:
The gray and animal squares were 8 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. I bought a yard of each and had left over.
The checkered squares were 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. That used a very small amount of fabric, less than the fat quarter I bought.
The rectangles were 2 1/2 by 8 1/2. I bought a fat quarter of both yellow colors. I was 2 strips short on each color. 1/3 of a yard would have been better.
I used warm and natural, 100% cotton, prepackaged crib size batting which was just about perfect with a little left on the side and a few inches on the bottom.
The binding I pieced together strips of 2 1/2"