This little collage quilt originally started out as an idea for a collaged ornament. But as I spent more and more time working on it, the project evolved and became more detailed and I decided that I would rather turn it into a wall hanging.
When I was thinking up ideas of how to fill the inside of the snow globe, I came up with the idea of a snowy A-frame house. So I drew out a snow globe complete with an A-frame and that became my collage pattern (the border around the snow globe originally served as a seam allowance, but it later just became the outside edge of the globe).
I used the collage method that I previously learned when taking a fabric collage class. First, I put down the pattern, then put my Goddess Sheet on top of it (a Goddess Sheet is a white see through-ish teflon sheet), then start building up my fabric layers.
Originally, I was going to make the top of the base pink (as seen above), but after creating the brown base and seeing how the pink looked against it, I decided to go with yellow instead.
The completed collage, prior to quilting:
Close-ups of the details:
The back of the completed snow globe:
Starting to quilt the grid:
Quilting complete and binding trimmed to size:
One of my least favorite parts of quilting is the binding. So for this quilt, I decided to go with a new (to me) technique that I had recently tried out - self binding, where the backing also serves as the binding. Did it save time? Maybe. But it would have saved a lot more time if I hadn’t gotten confused on the proper folding for the mitered corner - on the last corner 
. Even though I had already done three corners, that last corner managed to stump and frustrate me (it probably didn’t help that it was getting late and I was tired) and every time I thought I’d figured it out, I proceeded to make the same mistake 
.
Thankfully though, I finally got there in the end!
