Ah! After so long, finally something to show you!
Way back... uh...
(how long ago?)... YEARS ago... I visited my cousins in Florida and picked up a couple of African/Asian animal "layer cake" packs.
I've been doing a lot of quilts for my favorite charity:
Inspirational Quilts - but one of the benefits of blogging
(from my perspective) is that I became aware of how many of my quilts are very feminine. I need to do more masculine, or at least "unisex" quilts for the charity.
So here we are.. with these layer cake packs. I decided to get on with it recently, and not be too fussy about what designs, so opted to just do layer cake squares cut into triangle wedges and joined with a coordinating solid.
So I cut out 10" squares of a sunset orange and then stitched each one
(right faces together) to a charm square, then cut diagonally from corner to corner:
Then I flipped them, ironed them and formed them into a pinwheel - SIMPLE!
I framed the resulting blocks with a solid black lattice, and here's the happy result!
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| 60" x 72" - quilted on the longarm - bamboo batting |
And here's a cloesup of a couple of the blocks:
The stitching pattern is one I selected from the Q-Matic library because I thought it resemble the shields used by Watusi warriors. The backing
(and binding) are simple gold-coloured homespun, with a gold-ish thread
(not metallic...just plain thread of that colour).
It WORKS!
So, OK. What we've got here is suitable for a boy or a girl. I started with 2 layer cake packs, and so have enough to make another quilt, but I'm not going to duplicate this one... going to do something different for the next one.. stay tuned!
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