tapper

I want to make one of those collage or confetti quilt. Is there a tute or does anyone have suggestions/tips for making those types of quilts? They look like fun but would like to learn some of the things I may need to know to make the process easier.
Thank you.

JustAbitCrazy

There are books describing the process, but I don't have any so I can't tell you their names. You should be able to find them if you do a google search. Basically the snippets are placed where you want them and the entire quilt top is covered in a sheer fabric, then densely quilted right over the sheer fabric (which remains there forever) to secure the snippets in place.

If you do a search on uTube I bet there are demonstrations there.

thimblebug6000

Years ago, I took a class with Gail Hunt, I see she has a video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X67xrvKOek

anne2016

I, too, am interested in making one of the confetti quilts.
First time hearing about confetti powder.She says to discard any fabric that has a different colored background. Why is that? It doesn't show through onto the front unless melting the powder makes the background show through or maybe it's because you'd get some white pieces when you shredded the fabric into confetti and it would n't look good with other colors you use.

cashs_mom

I think confetti quilts and collage quilts are two different things, aren't they?

Tartan

Confetti quilts are small snipers of fabric fused to a background to make a picture. Collage quilts are when bigger pieces or elements are fussy cut from fabric and then assembled to make an object. There have been done really nice collage pieces posted on QB.

tapper

Yes, thank you, I see now that they are different. I wouldn't mind trying both but would try the collage ones first. The collage ones on QB are the ones that got my attention especially the cow one(Jersey Girl?) I saw posted. That was so cute!

sandy l

"The Art of Fabric Collage" by Rosemary Eichorn. I've had the book for years, but have never tried it and it's on my "one of these days" list

Pagzz

This artist makes collage quilts. Look through her gallery. I really liked her book. http://deborahsstudio.com/

mac

There is also the "mile-a-minute" process, that is similar to the confetti quilt. You sew all the small pieces together and then you cut them into blocks. It is sort of like making your own fabric. There is a book out on this with the same title.

A friend of mine, made a confetti quilt which was really nice, but I could never get over the fact that you could see the netting that is placed over the quilt. For me, even though it was really faint, it took away from the fact that you had all these colors slightly muted by the netting that was used.

Of course, if you had a lot of itsy bitsy pieces, that can't be sewn together because they were too small, this would be the perfect solution to putting them all together. I knew a person that never, ever, threw her little triangles away that you cut off the corners of blocks. She saved them in a mason jar and she had lots of those jars filled with the triangles. I don't think she ever intended to use them, she said that she just like seeing the colorful jars in her quilting room.