Character Quilt - Part 1

My newest plan for a quilt - gosh, I'm good at PLANNING, when will I ever be DOING? - is one for a friend. I'd like to incorporate his main interests in life and am busily collecting fabrics, which is a lot more difficult than I thought.

What I have in mind is something similar to these two quilts by HandmadeByAlissa: Sparks Baby Quilt and the Land and Sea Quilt.
I might arrange the framed panels randomly, though that'd be a lot more piecing of the background, but it might have a nicer, less rigid look.

The fabrics/themes I've brain-stormed so far are:

• Reading/Books
• Salsa/Latin Dancing
• Snooker/Pool
• Fish/Salmon
• Skiing
• Seashells
• Reggae/Music
• Beer
• Cheese
• Windmills
• Tulips
• Cooking
  
• Corals
• Classical Music/Pianos/Instruments/Notes
• Beaches (tropical)
• Coffee

Here are my finds to date:

Corals

Reggae

Skiing (two fabrics from the same line)

Coffee

Seashells

Pool

Cooking (aren't these cooks awesome??)

Red for the background (he likes wine red and black in combination,
luckily I bought lots of black for the oriental quilt)

I'm pretty happy with this so far, and it's very exciting to hunt for these particular themes. I have two more local fabric stores on my list, and two that are 45 min away, make it a day adventure, because unfortunately, they're in opposite directions.