Making a Collage Quilt

Making a Collage Quilt Last year I took a class with Loretta Orsborn of Loretta’s Quilting Bliss and I just loved it! It was an exercise in design, color and balance. We had so much fun and everyone’s quilt came out beautiful that we requested she make a paper pattern so others can enjoy this technique, too. Well she did! The first thing she had us do is find a focus fabric or theme that we wanted to follow through in the quilt. Then gather up fabric that will match or enhance this theme. I wanted to use fabric from my stash and for the most part was able to. Then we were taught to make a strip set of 1 1/2” fabric strips from fabric that we plan to use throughout the quilt. That was the fun and easy part. Then on to the designing. She provides in the pattern a wonderful grid to help us design and use all the fabrics we want. I chose to make mine in batiks that I have been collecting up for a