Confetti

Here's another small project I made last night using a confetti technique from an article in Art Quilting Studio magazine:

Basically you take all your little scraps, cut them into tiny squares or rectangles, fuse them over batting and muslin and then run a wavy machine stitch back and forth to tack down the edges before you machine applique a couple of focal patches over them.

This one was easier to do than the hand-stitched project I tried yesterday; I have a commercial-grade Singer with a heavy duty needle so it ran right through it. Probably should have used an ecru thread to match the patchwork. It's an interesting technique, but all those raw edges make it impractical for anything but decorative/non-washable use.