Quilting... with different types of fabrics

I like a challenge.  I like to look at instructions, throw them in the trash and then try it my way.

This usually results in my making many mistakes, unpicking, cutting new fabric as I trashed the old fabric, lots of swearing, putting the project away for a few weeks and then tackling it again when I am less frustrated.

So when I asked a number of my online friends for inspiration, a number of them suggested a bunny rug for my boy who is due in about 8 weeks.  Ah ha, I thought, I could do a quilt patchwork kind of thing with pieces of my scrap box. 

I hunted around and found about a dozen pieces of fabric in shades of blue.  The fabrics I have used include quilters cotton, dot minky, normal minky, corduroy, denim, fleece, fake fur, velour and terry.  I cut them into squares either 6cm, 11cm or 21cm square depending on how large the original piece was.  I then arranged these in what I thought was a nice pattern:

I then sewed them together with 0.5cm hems with my walking foot.  I hoped that even though some of the fabrics were so hugely different in thickness and slipperyness that the walking foot would compensate for this.  It did, mostly, and I became much better at keeping them pieces square towards the end of sewing them together:

Then I cut a piece of beautiful blue minky for the backing and proceeded to try to quilt the two pieces together.  It seems to have worked but I'm still not sure that I did a 100% perfect job.  But perfection is not what I am looking for, just the learning experience.

Now I just need to find some bias binding to go around the edge to finish it off.  I am tempted to just overlock it, but I think that this deserves to be finished properly.  I'll post the final picture when I have found the perfect binding.