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:
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.
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!
Love the bright and cheerful colors.
Really lovely! One of my favorite quilts to make, so fast and easy. I love all the colors.
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!
What a beautiful bright quilt. I am in the middle of making a quilt with this fabric for my niece!
your blog is very fine
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.
Lovely solution for a quick and easy quilt, you made the layer cakes simply irresistible! Prayers abound.
What a happy looking quilt!
Isn't this design so fun to sew!
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