Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Bright fabrics

I have been doing a bit of sewing in my rearranged sewing room. Last month when my friend Sandra visited for a couple of days, she brought me some fabric from her friend's fabric shop, Over the Rainbow. The package was called a "layer cake" which I suppose is a take off on the "jelly rolls" that are often sold, or the "charm packs". None of these can be found in Japan... Anyway, just a lovely assortment of fabrics but I didn't know what to do with them.

Then I also threw out the question to blogging visitors about what is the easiest quilt to make for prayer and charity quilts and many of you commented that the Disappearing Nine-Patch was an easy and impressive pattern to make. SOOOO... I got out the roller cutter and cut my layer cake into quarters and did a quick Disappearing Nine-Patch.

Truly an easy quilt to make! And fun! And for myself the colors are beautiful and exciting. Yes, I will be making this quilt again. But maybe I'll combine some of bright fabrics with some solids. I keep coming back to my theory that Japanese don't or won't like all these bright colors and combinations. Well, I make prayer quilts with what I have at hand and this is this month's result. I still have a lot more blocks so next month's prayer quilt will be much the same...

And yes... It is not about the quilts. It is about the prayers.

10 comments:

Marj said...

The bright colors are very pretty. I also think that some solids would calm it down and make your flowered fabric go futher. Looking forward to what you do next.

mamaspark said...

I am gearing up to make a Disappearing 9 patch right now too. It must be the pattern to make at the moment. Glad to hear that it was easy. I might suggest throwing in some white to your mix, but I love all the wild colors together!

Janet C said...

Love the bright and cheerful colors.

Allie said...

Really lovely! One of my favorite quilts to make, so fast and easy. I love all the colors.

Lori in South Dakota said...

a D9P is so much fun. I did one in three colors, and someone named it "chocolate covered cherries". The name stuck because when I was little we ate them every Christmas. I too look forward to making another one!

Chocolate Cat said...

What a beautiful bright quilt. I am in the middle of making a quilt with this fabric for my niece!

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Amanda said...

I'm sure that this quilt will cheer someone up if they're feeling a bit low. I love the way the disappearing nine patch quilt can look so different depending on the way you lay out the blocks and the fabrics you use.

Mrs. Goodneedle said...

Lovely solution for a quick and easy quilt, you made the layer cakes simply irresistible! Prayers abound.

Quilter Kathy said...

What a happy looking quilt!
Isn't this design so fun to sew!