Quilt 148: African/Asian Animals 1 - Done!

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!

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!