Razzle-Dazzle - the Quilt

Razzle-Dazzle is finished at last.  It has been just over five years since the initial brights on black strips were cut from fabrics in the stash.

Originally those strips were intended to become a set of six placemats, but in June 2022 while visiting Lynne in NH and making my first scrap slab triangles using her tutorial, that plan abruptly changed.

Once home, I started piecing the 88 brights on black triangles in July 2022, quickly realizing I needed to cut even more strips from the stash; especially since a whole lot of the original strips were already being used to piece a donation quilt top named B.O.B.

By September 2022, Razzle-Dazzle's final layout was pinned to the design wall, including each block's scrappy black on white side triangles.

The project stayed on the design wall until spring 2023, when I finally started assembling the three-piece blocks (a triangle plus two side setting triangles, framed on the outer edges with Tula Pink Lineworks "Read Between the Lines" zebras).  

The top was completed in June, 2023 (8 columns wide x 11 rows; 51" x 70").

The scrappy back was also pieced in June 2023, using four prints from the stash:  NIGHT BLOOM b Chong-a-Hwang for Timeless Treasures, TOSSED MASQUARADE (sic) LADIES from Loralei Harris Designs, a print by Debi Payne for QT Fabrics, and ISLAND PALM LEAVES from Tropical Breeze line by Greta Lynn for Kanvas.  

In order to make the backing long enough, I added the horizontal insert using seven rows of pieced 2.5" strips left after making the top.  

Quilted using my liberated all over nested spiral fans and Glide thread in Kiwi (lime-ish green).

Once quilted, it was time to make a final decision on the binding.  

Surprise!  I found some already-made binding lurking in my leftover/set aside binding stash that was absolutely perfect and not one of the previous choices.  It had been made from the last of a long-stashed Henry Glass wide back named Circle Play by designer Color Principle.

This photo shows the four different corners of the back with the newly-finished binding.

And this photo shows a better detail of the insert strips.  

Finished size:  49.5" x 68.5"

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Such a gloriously scrappy quilt - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

Quiltdivajulie

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