Design Wall Monday ~ 5 Inch Cake Stand Blocks

The weekend began with an ambitious goal of tackling 20 blocks. Clearly, that didn’t happen, but hey, no stress, there’s only so much cake one girl can handle!

Sewing these 5-inch Cake Stand blocks is just as tricky as you'd imagine.  There's barely any wiggle room for mistakes or sneaky fixes. Once the quilt is done, those little uh-oh's will probably vanish like crumbs from a cake! 

One of the small annoyances I'm embracing in the quilt is the clash of prints I think don't mix well. Case in point, the bottom right block on the design board. Plaid and stripes together—ugh! But it's staying put, like it or not.  We'll just call it giving the quilt character.

It's the little imperfections that gives a quilt a tale of its own. When this quilt gets passed down, someone will undoubtedly give it a thorough inspection, spotting the flaws and jumping to conclusions. 

For instance, most of the cake stand bases have matching fabrics, but a few don't because I ran out of bonus half square triangles that matched. Instead of stressing over perfect matches, I just went for coordinating colors and declared it good enough.  Anyone inspecting this quilt might assume it’s a mistake on the maker’s part, but you and I both know it’s just sheer laziness on my end.

In other news...

Take a look at my new Zinnia patch, it's like a rainbow exploded! This year was an experiment to see if these beauties could thrive in what can only be described as a weed jungle. Turns out, they're loving it! So, next year’s master plan... double the flowers, double the color!

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Nine Patch UFO = A Quilt Kit

Back in 2014 I had grand plans for a simple nine patch quilt.  For some reason the plan changed. 

Six months later I used some of them to make my Patriotic Picnic quilt.

Then a year after that I started another quilt to use up what I thought was the last of the nine patches.

In January of this year while sorting through the UFO's I found more of the nine patches.  This week a plan has been made to finally use the last of them.  It'll be a simple small quilt using the fabric scraps from the nine patches.  The large floral print will used for the backing.

Sadly, I was three pieces short of making the quilt.  No problem, that's why we have fabric stashes!  I pulled several fabrics to audition.  Only one made the cut.

In my opinion a floral print would have been better since all the other fabrics are florals but in the end the color of this print looked better than any of the other prints I pulled.

Before storing this project away as a quilt kit it was added to the design wall.  It took a bit of shuffling fabrics and patchwork until I was happy with the layout.  Then they were carefully removed from the wall in order from left to right. 

This quilt is small, 58 x 58.  So, it will probably be the next quicky quilt to be finished.  By the way the inspiration for this quilt was Cranberry Chain by Laundry Basket Quilts.  

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