This page is all about my Ballet with Kaffe Fassett quilt. I've called my quilt Fireworks. Fireworks I started my Ballet quilt on 8 June 2017 with these fabrics. Although I'm a great Kaffe Fassett fan, I decided not to make his fabrics the focus for this quilt. I've always thought this pattern resembled fireworks, so I used a dark background to represent the night sky, and made the colours in my rosettes really pop, like fireworks do. I've loved this particular Cotton + Steel print above for some time, so I decided to use it as my inspiration fabric for this quilt. It's by Sarah Watts from the Spring 2015 Honeymoon range and is called Sketches and Memories from Costa Rica. I just love how the colours work together, and it has the dark background I'm looking for. Here are links to all my posts on the Ballet with Kaffe quilt: 15 June 2017 - Getting started 27 August 2017 - Progress and how to sew a 10 pointed star 15 Feb 2018 More progress 8 April 2018 - Meeting Willyne Hammerstein at AQC Melbourne 10 April 2018 - Willyne's Moncarapacho quilt at AQC 6 Feb 2019 - Back at it 12 Dec 2019 - Ballet with Kaffe Revisited 2 Jan 2020 - Ballet with Kaffe top is finished 4 April 2020 - How I attached the borders 20 August 2021 - Ballet with Kaffe = Fireworks (the finished quilt) August 2017 Here's my progress from the first few months of working on this quilt. I don't imagine it will all come together this quickly, but new quilts always pull me in and get me stitching quickly. February 2018 February 2019 Just like on la passacaglia, my mind is working faster than my hands and I already have groupings of fabrics set aside for future rosettes. I'm really looking forward to this adventure. January 2020 - the top is finished April 2020 and the borders are on. May 2021 - it's finished an on display at the Great New Zealand Quilt Show in Rotorua, NZ