My dear friend Karen & I have a tradition of eating Barnum's animal cookies in the car when we travel to distant Sewing Expos and Fabric Stores.  When I learned that she & her husband Doug were expecting their first baby, I started this quilt based on that theme.

These foundation-pieced animals are from Margaret Rolfe's book, "A Quilter's Ark". My husband Chuck said the tiger looks smug and the tortoise looks drunk.

I scanned in the top of the cookie box and printed the label on inkjet heat transfer paper.