And lo, it is another batik-patterned baby quilt. Some background: when I lived in Sweden, I worked with a lovely woman named Eva Björk. In addition to being a great tech writer, Eva also became a good friend of mine, so I was delighted to find out last year that she was pregnant. Her son Albin was born in October; I got the news in December, and immediately started planning a baby quilt.

However, I wanted to do something a little different than my previous ninepatch/snowball quilts Rainbow Sherbert (Two Scoops), but not quite as intricate as the paper piecing I did for Hearts and Flowers. After noodling around with some patterns, I finally settled on a classic pinwheel block in white and various batiks, separated by white sashes and multicolored squares, and finished off with a peacock blue stripe, wide white border and a multi-toned blue tie-dyed binding (there's something about the framing effect that I really like).

Life, as usual, interfered with the actual patchwork piecing, but I finally put it all together and got to work on the actual quilting during the Tour de France. Making baby quilts during the tour is starting to be something of a tradition with me, eh? When it was finished, I realised it looked like multicolored confetti blown by a field of pinwheels, hence the name.

Oh, and it's not nearly as crooked as it looks in the picture to the right -- I just wasn't able to get it to hang straight. And now that this is off to Albin and Eva, I have to finish the in-progress quilt for baby Delia, then start planning one for my incipient nephew Brandon. A quilter's work is never done, thank Boombah.

And the more I work on these, the more I really need to make a full-sized one all for myself. Heh.