By Alisa
I started this quilt in 2019 and worked on it off and on through the lockdown of 2020. My quilt was inspired by the Brickyard Quilt tutorial by Missouri Star Quilt Company. The Missouri Star quilt was made with a white background and I wanted to flip it to black; but I did use the lovely Ombré Confetti New Colors Metallic Jelly Roll by V. & Co for Moda Fabric that they demonstrated. The jelly roll is no longer available, but there are lots of “Ombré Confetti” yardage options available.
The blocks are cut from longer strip sets made up of six jelly roll strips. Because the fabric is ombré with a big variation you’ll get several blocks with the same color family but no two blocks are exactly the same.
The pattern calls for two of the block corners to have a background triangle added. I didn’t add the corners because I noticed that my blocks were dramatically different sizes. I didn’t square them up after the initial cut from the strip sets -- that might have been the problem. Once the corners were snowballed, it was just too hard to get a common size so I skipped that step, and moved forward with the original blocks.
I took a break from this quilt several times during the year and finally got it together and committed to making the blocks work. I tried a bunch of layout options before arriving at this one.
After assembling the top I added an inner border made from leftover black jelly roll strips.
I had purchased two colors -- onyx and graphite grey -- of the Ombré Confetti yardage along with the jelly roll; I decided to piece the black together for the back and miter the grey to give the border a dimensional look.
I had the top quilted at a local long-armer in an all-over pattern of circles.
My binding professional -- my mom! -- added the binding in the grey ombré. I made a quick cover from the remaining onyx ombré yardage and, after a year of work, gave it to a good friend for her January 2021 birthday.
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