Further adventures of the turtle quilt

This will be going to my cousin M in Israel, so it's going to have to be a bit smaller as quilts go. Her daughter is due in four months. I'm thinking of 3'6 x 3'1 or thereabouts, which would permit me to use standard fabric for the backing.



The turtle shell needs to be better centred, and I think there needs to be a bit less sea around the turtle (i.e. closer borders) and a slightly wider outer border, judging from my fish baby quilt. The idea is that the turtle body is medium green, the shell is orange, hot pink, yellow, light green, and perhaps some red and darker green (maybe just for the edging), the sea is that graduated turquoise saltwash batik I used for the fish quilt (that's why it's numbered: 1 is the darkest, 4 is the lightest, and note that the fish quilt didn't use the darkest section), then there's a narrow border (I have two orangey-yellow fabrics with multicoloured patterns laid aside, I may even use both), then the sea design continues into the border, using a variety of patterned batiks ranging from turquoise through to dark blue. For the backing, I'm eyeing up this glorious fabric. I've just rung, and apparently it's a nice bright fabric, orange predominating, and equal amounts of pink, yellow and green elsewhere.

( Photos of the fabrics )

What do you think, folks?