Since my neck has been feeling better I'm going to try to do another little art quilt in my Winter series. I thought I'd use only fabrics I picked up in the scrap stacks I bought at the county quilt show, so I pulled these:
Rather than do another miniature art quilt, I decided to cut the pieces into strips of random lengths and sew them together ala Valerie Nesbitt's 40 minute scrap quilt top method. Since I only had four different fabrics I did sort the strips into piles, and sewed one from each to keep the colors from clumping together during the piecing. Here's how it turned out:
I like the results; it looks a bit like a frosty window on a cold night with just bits of the sky and stars showing through (okay, if you squint it does.) So tomorrow I'll bat and back it, and then decide if I want to embroider it or just hand quilt it with some appropriately sparkly thread.
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I haven't seen that book. I do a lot of piecing using Quilt In A Day. I imagine it's a lot like the method you used.