Confetti, a finished quilt

Some quilts are slow to finish because you like them too much. The process is so delightful that you almost don't want to finish. Do you know what I mean?

I loved the making of this quilt at every stage: squaring up crumb scraps, puzzling together quilt blocks and watching my Confetti collection grow and grow on my design wall. If I liked it almost too much to finish, that obviously means that I might want to make another. And, in fact, that’s just what I have in mind.

Luckily, I realized at the tail end of the process how to create a quilt pattern for this style of quilt. Yay!!! It’s on my to do list! I thinking to create the pattern and then make a baby quilt after the pattern is released, while hosting a sew-along.

But first, honestly, I have to let my crumb scrap collection rebuild. This quilt totally wiped them out! Amazing.

As you can see, I quilted Confetti with closely spaced diagonal straight lines. With so many small pieces, dense quilting will help the quilt last.

For the backing, I totally treated myself to Metcombe Navy Whitehaven from Cloud 9 from Fenceline Fabrics.

Fenceline has an in-house photographer who takes these helpful images of the yardage on the bolt. It really helps me imagine how the print could work. In this case, I knew I’d love it for a backing, and I’m not disappointed.

The binding is a simple diagonal stripe. I always love this type of binding for a scrappy quilt.

Confetti is finished, but it’s not going far. It holds so many memories. Memories of the projects I made with all these many fabrics and memories of Elora’s eagerness to “sew, mama, sew” as she helped me along. This was the first quilt I’ve made where she engaged with the process. I hope it will be the first of many! It would be fun to have another quilter in the family someday.

Happy scrappy quilt-making to all!