In Progress: Dr. Suess Quilt

So, I'm working on about 4 baby quilts right now for friends, etc who all decided to have babies around the same time... for one, I'm doing a Dr. Seuss-themed quilt, and wanted to do this blog post about it while it is still in progress to get some ideas...

It turns out that Dr. Seuss fabric is NOT easy to find. Apparently Dr. Seuss was real stingy with the licensing for products, etc. After searching through many fabric stores (complete dead-ends), yard sales, e-bay, etc, I located sheets from Pottery Barn Kids (thanks to Mandy's mom for the tip) - click here to see them. So from this bedding fabric, I cut squares out so that each different character is in its own square. The difficulty is that the layout was somewhat erratic, and the characters are all different sizes, resulting in various sizes of the squares. So I'm thinking of a couple of different options here - either piecing together the squares with various sized colored fabrics to make uniform sized squares, and then piecing those together to make the quilt top, or simply bordering each square and piecing them together somewhat erratically in a more funky pattern for the quilt top, rather than a structured, predictable look. Thoughts?

The other problem is the choice of fabric colors. I'd like to use two or three colors, and either solids or a small pattern. As you can see if you click on the link, the fabric is white with the brightly colored characters printed on it. There are so many different colors, and I'm not sure what would be the best way to go for a fabric choice? Any ideas???

Right now, the squares are spread out across a towel in my living room, so I can look at them and hopefully be inspired. Any thoughts or ideas from ya'll would be helpful!