Layer Cakes with Extra Frosting: Free Quilt Pattern

Extra Frosting

Here's a free pattern that works great with a Moda Layer Cake.

Charlie Chaplin and a Layer Cake

Slicing up Layer Cakes: 

Recipe starts with 42 ten-inch squares of the Morris Jewels.

Yum. Layer Cake.

Yum. Morris Jewels.

Slice and add a strip of white.

For enough white to make a 6 x 7 block quilt

(42) blocks you'll need  4 yards of white.

Four yards-that's ridiculous---

One Yard, thank you free-lance proof readers in the comments.

(All the B sides face towards the center)

The finished quilt of 42 blocks will be about 55"x 64 "

With 42 layers you get 42 blocks to play with.

I drew a sketch in EQ7 that makes the most of a layer cake.

First you slice the 10" square in half diagonally for piece A.

Save one slice for A. This will be the larger triangle. Half a 10" square finishes to a block 9.125 or 9-1/8 inches. This will be your finished block size.

Take the other triangle  and cut it so that each leg of the triangle is 7"

For the white layer (frosting?)

Cut a strip 2-1/2" wide by 14" of white.

Sew A to C and B to the other side of C.

Trim C  so your block is square 

You can do this with any set of Layer Cakes

like my Moda Alice's Scrapbag.

6 x 6 blocks = 54.75" square

You might prefer a traditional look with 36 blocks in a square

It will be 76.75" square

Add two inner borders of dark and light finishing to 2" wide

and an outer border finishing to 9" wide.

Paulette Goddard and a Layer Cake