Faceted Mosaic

For many years I have loved looking at mosaics. Their colour, shape, and interesting little bits of china or glass really catch my eye. However I don't have the tools, nor the room for yet another craft in my house at the moment. So I have decided to do a mosaic quilt.

 This quilt is based on Kaffe Fassetts Facet quilt (from his new book Simple Shapes Spectacular quilts), and Brandon Mably's mosaic wall on their studio in London (I will see if I can get permission to show these pics next time!).

I started with Kaffe's pattern for his Facet quilt and made it up in two different shades of grey as the 'grouting' between the mosaic. I used Kona cotton in Charcoal and Coal.

Then I picked about 8 or 9 fabrics for each coloured diamond....various oranges for the orange diamond, various pinks for the pink diamond, etc, mainly using Kaffe and Brandons fabrics. I cut out a rectangle of each colour (about 6 x 8 inches each) and ironed Heat and Bond to the back of the fabrics. Then comes the fun part....cutting out each fabric into little mosaic shapes and glueing them in place within each diamond.

I began with the first orange diamond, moved onto the green, etc, and I will fill in each and every diamond and half diamond with mosaic colour by the time I am finished. Once happy with each diamond, I then iron the mosaic shapes to properly fuse them on.

Once the whole quilt top is complete I will layer the quilt top with the batting and backing and then free motion stitch around each and every mosaic shape. This will ensure none of the pieces will ever fall off, as well as quilting the quilt at the same time! I am hoping to get all this completed very soon as we are off on a road trip to Brisbane in a couple of weeks time, so I'd better get working on it!!!