Bottled Rainbows

Now with Bailey's quilt off the design board and under the needle, my design board is bare again!  You know what that means!!  Yep, start a new quilt!  That's the sign of a serious quilter, you know!   Two projects going at the same time.  Or more than two...!  or three.... or four....

I found Bottled Rainbows awhile ago, and knew I HAD TO MAKE ONE!  It's a rainbow quilt done in a technique called "ticker tape" or also known as "confetti."  If you Google images for "Bottled Rainbow quilt" you will see all kinds of beautiful examples.  I found this quilt in a magazine and here is the link to the article:  http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/02/bottled-rainbows-ticker-tape-quilt.html

This is a "quilt as you go" quilt,  based on the color scheme shown below.  (although you can change this, of course.)  Next to the color scheme is a sample quilt made by someone else to show you what it might look like.  A "tray" is made for each color, and smaller "scraps" are placed in the tray, arranged, and sewn with raw edges on the confetti pieces.  Sewing on these smaller pieces is what quilts your sandwich.  It sounds really easy, and especially fun!!  You can arrange the pieces in a mosaic picture if you are so inclined too!

 

Here are my chosen fabrics (mostly batiks):

The border and background fabrics are cut.

Auditioning fabrics for the "confetti."

I am excited about making this quilt.  I have to decide what backing fabric to use.  I have a couple of choices that I think would work.  One is a black with white spots.  The other is also black but with colorful circles.  What do you think?

I have some time to make a decision on this as I want to finish quilting Bailey's Christmas deer quilt first. Also, I have to sew the borders to the background fabric to make the confetti trays too.  But since this is a "quilt as you go" quilt, I have to decide before I add the confetti!  Oh, decisions, decisions!  Don't we love it!?