Confetti Quilting

... another thing I learned from my commenters today: There is such a thing as a confetti quilt:



Not something I will ever do, I think. But I might keep them for Shadow Quilting:

Happily squaring away

... is what I'm up to. I've grabbed my cutting mat, my rotary cutter and my ruler with its little gripper spotty thingies underneath and am squaring away. Naturally, my heart bleeds at having to discard the cut-offs, but really, there is no point in saving 5 mm slim scraps, is there?

Now, I'm debating additional fabrics for the backing and the edge. I'm probably going to go with some small dotty fabric, irregular tiny flowers or something, plus checkers for the backing but in pastels please. That'll be fun to find.

I had hoped to swing by our local fabric retailer but my boss threw me a curb ball by setting up an appointment in the office. I had planned on working frmo home and running some errands ... but ey, at least I got my contract extended. So it was worth it.

How to square it off ...?

So, I've machined all those 35 blocks and now the difficult part begins ... the squaring and the assembling ... in the right order ... which brings us to this:



I decided against this ... mainly because of the very blood red squares top of the centre, so I moved them to the corner:





So there are 32 blocks placed and one lesson learned: a pattern revolving around quarters is no good for 35 blocks (35 aka 5 times 7). Sigh.

Which takes us to the next level: how to square off ... do I? Do I need to? And if I need to, how? I've never done before. I'm a bit baffled and apprehensive. Sigh.

A Woman Obsessed ...

no, that is not me. It's my neighbour, she's obsessed with her terrasse ... and even brings out her sewing machine.



(Sneaky shot from my kitchen window)

Thanks for all your comments! Allow me to add: This woman is the resident dragon in our little development. She's quite obnoxious, actually. Consequently, I'll sew in my basement while she sews on her porch ;-)

Done - just in time ...

which is: the night before the Birthday of the Birthday Girl. And this is what a Princess Bed looks like in my house:



The whole thing ...



The top ...



The rest: notice the little dragon and mouse on the day cover?

One big step ahead!

All prepared and rearing to go ....

Other than ebaying, I spent yesterday evening cutting triangles and pinning bed linen to fleece blankets for a throw. It may not look like much at this stage but it will all come together tonight, I'm hoping:



Fabric selection for triangles: IKEA linens, left-overs gifted to me by a British quilting friend, my grand-mother's bed linen ...



Added: This is what the princess bed should look like - well, in principle at least!



It will have a quilt (see first image) and the netting (see second image). At first I wanted to rim the bottom but now I'm all focussed on those triangles at the top. Only that mine aren't that contrasting which I hope won't be a problem design-wise.