A baby quilt with a chicken and egg problem

I'm working on a fun chicken and egg baby quilt

to celebrate the birth of a new baby on my street

and as part of Year of the baby quilt in my guild.

So yesterday during the big football game

I appliqued these chickens in funky, non-chicken colours.

They still need some eyes and legs, but I was planning

to quilt those in with dark thread.

These birds will go in a quilt made from this Robert Kaufmann Mona Luna fabric

that's been sitting in my stash for a year or more.

I don't want to cut up the print too much,

so I'm inserting a band with the appliqued chickens

Here it is on top

And here it is on the bottom.

Which do you like better?

The good news is that I have enough fabric to make it both ways

if I applique a few more birds on another band.

I could also insert narrow strips of green on either side of the white

since nothing is sewn together.

What's a good size for a baby quilt?

 Right now, this is sort of squarish rectangular

at 42 inches by 46 or so.

I've thought of cutting it a bit narrower to 36 or 38.