How fun would Tummy Time had been for my girls had I known how to quilt when they were little?! The pattern for this quilt was one I had seen on a Missouri Star tutorial called Double Slice using a layer cake. Well the cheapskate in me just can't bring myself to pay for layer cakes. I do love the selection of fabrics and how they all coordinate...but I don't love how much more you pay. Fabric is NOT cheap, and so paying for convenience just seems wrong to me. (Now if we had lots of money...I'd totally pay for it! But we don't...so this is one of those places I draw a line)
Layer cakes are simply 10 inch square fabrics bundled together...and so I went to my stash and found 20 different fabrics, all bright and colorful...and cut them each to 10 inches square. :o) It was a great stash buster, and really didn't take very long.
The Double Slice pattern is relatively quick, great for a last minute gift. The longest part of the process besides choosing the 20 fabrics to go together...was laying them all out and deciding how they would work in the quilt. I decided that was a perfect job for my 17 year old daughter...I gave her the stack, said have fun, and then she laid them all out and I finished sewing the blocks together. The goal was to get the colors spread out throughout the quilt and try not to have too many like colors next to each other.
I'm going to line the back of it with fleece...I'm not sure which color yet, I'm leaning towards purple though. I'll be listing it on Etsy as soon as it's finished...although I was also thinking of listing it now and offering it with the option to be personalized with a name. The colors are so bright I think a name in white especially would show up well and look nice. What do you think??
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