Sunday, January 10, 2016

Project Quilting Season 7: Week 1 - Confetti


Project Quilting Season 7
Theme: Confetti

A lot of 1/2 inches squares.  1/4 inch sashing.  Measures 20 by 28 inches.


You can VOTE HERE for your favorite project for week one of Season 7.

These next Photos I want to share are from my cell phone. Most were taken very late at night or in the early morning before the sun came up so the lighting isn't great, but they tell a great story of the quilt's Creation.

The idea for the quilt formed gradually. I definitely wanted to use tiny pieces so I settled on that pretty quick. I contemplated using small pieces to make a mosaic picture but I didn't want to have a lot of raw edges.  Then I thought about making a quilt that looked like confetti had landed on it, but dismissed that idea because I wanted to create something more organized.  But confetti isn't organized so I was stumped. In my mind I threw a handful of confetti and watched  it fall trying to come up with an idea. My mind drifted to a piece of artwork my daughter made with crayons and a blow dryer. I knew right then I wanted to create a fabric Version of her piece.
I grabbed my colored scraps and cut 792 one inch sqaures.

Some colors I didn't have enough scraps so I cut a one inch strip from my yardage.



I sewed all the squares to a thin Strip of white and re-trimmed them all.

Next came the creating of Rows.

I always have a kitty Close by.


At this point I really loved the look of the rectangles of color.
I think I might try another Rainbow quilt with rectangles in the future.

The back was looking pretty spiffy.

I paused the the sewing of Rows to get the perfect placement of my Couple.

Back side of the finished top.

Closer view of the back.

I put a sheet of wonder under with black fabic on it in the printer and printed out my couple. I was excited about how well it printed out that I forgot to take a photo of that step.

After the couple was trimmed and ironed on, it was time for quilting vertical lines.
I finished at 11:00 pm Saturday night and took an outside phot this morning.

Trimmed, bound, and completed in one week! Think I'll name it "New Year's Kiss"




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17 comments:

  1. Wow--fantastic design!! I greatly admire your patience and precision with such itty bitty piecing!! The finished piece looks amazing!!

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  2. So beautiful and creative! Very inspiring!!

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  3. This is just so so cool! I love it!!

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  4. Awww, you inspire me Leah. Love it!!!

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  5. This is even more amazing now that I've seen the measurements of the pieces you used...so many seams. It looks great!

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  6. WOW! I LOVE this! Absolutely STUNNING!

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  7. I would totally buy a pattern for this.

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  8. Congratulations on winning! Your quilt is gorgeous, and quite an achievement to get done in only one week. Just stunning!!

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  9. This is lovely! Other quilts are beautiful too, you got a new reader :)

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  10. Sorry I did not participate in challenge one and see your beautiful work. Just wow! You are inspiring me to do things on quilts I would have never attempted before. TY

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