Spools
After a somewhat busy winter, I finally got around to finishing another quilt. Not like I haven't done any quilting - in fact I was working on a completely different quilt before this one, but parked it while I decided what colour border I wanted. The Layer Cake Spools pattern appealed to me as I had a layer cake sitting around that needed a purpose, and this seemed like a match. To maximise use of the layer cake, I adjusted the pattern somewhat to use 40 of the 10" squares, and have a 4 x 5 'spool' layout. I also didn't follow the instructions exactly, working with the larger first round of pieced blocks without trimming to size, so that I could end up with a slightly larger final block, and also avoid the non-standard block size. I paired the layer cake with a Devonstone solid in the colour 'Seeded'. To be able to cut out 40 matching 10" squares, I knew I needed just over 2.5m of the background. But that is an odd size to purchase, so I only ...