Confetti and Streamers

Huzzah!  I got the baby quilt done in time for Family Weekend.  Well, finished at Family Weekend.  I wrapped up the binding and buried the last quilting threads down on the Cape less than four hours before the festivities began.  Luck was with me - I had sunshine, nearly no breeze and some excellent places to photograph at the cottage.

I held onto the quilt long enough to confirm I got good photos and then gifted it on Sunday.  Whew!

The quilt pattern is called Woven Jewelbox.  I wanted the throw quilt design as a baby quilt size.  So I cut my strips just shy of two inches wide, which resulted in a quilt roughly 40x50 inches.  The diamonds are about 11 inches tall.

It was a fun design.  I got the zig zags put together fairly quickly, but I struggled with the fabric for the diamonds.  I wanted to work in some dark gold and black, but it fought with the rest of the quilt.  At one point I had put together and mostly ripped apart three different sets of the center diamonds before settling on that green.  The quilt has a cooler feel than what I originally envisioned, but it works.

I managed to incorporate most of the extra diamonds into the back of the quilt.  So many rejects!  They look great, but just not in the front of the quilt.  I have only one diamond left over.  LOL.  I was excited to use the big chunk of blue on the back so you can see all the vehicles on it.  So cute!  The dark gold is perfect.  I don't know why it fought everything on the front.

 

I stitched in the ditch around the zig zags and the diamonds anticipating using free motion to fill it in.  However, I kept skipping stitches on the first little section I tested.  So the whole quilt got the walking foot treatment.  It actually goes quite nicely with the modern pattern.  It's been a long time since I walked something this big.  The insides of the diamonds required me to turn the quilt around - it takes a lot more effort than you'd think.  More time, too.  (I'm hoping to fix that machine so I can go back to free motion!)

Even though it wasn't what I planned, I really like how it turned out.  I even managed to print the label out on one of the little diamond centers.  Perfect!

I am so pleased to have it done for the family reunion.  They loved it!  And I totally lucked out to have a good spot for taking photos (with a background color scheme of grey, green and blue).  

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