Delectable Mountains
I watch a fair few quilting videos on YouTube. A couple of years ago I found Carol Thelen, who was releasing a video a day of a different block . I very much enjoyed these videos, and seeing all the different blocks she was making, and providing free patterns for. For some blocks, Carol showed what they would look like as a whole quilt. And when I saw the delectable mountains block and quilt , I knew that was the pattern to use for a layer cake I had laying around. The Benartex layer cake had been sitting in the stash for a few years, maybe since one of mum's trips to the US? I didn't want a plain background (though it does sort of look like it in the photos), so I ended up purchasing three different low volume fabrics in white from the usual big shop. After one of my last quilts which had a few hundred small half square triangles, it was quite nice to work with a much larger half triangle size. These were then trimmed, cut into rectangles and rearr...