This year, as in many past, I received fabric as a Christmas Gift. My daughter-in-law gifted me with two beautiful Layer Cakes. The fabrics were very random and scrappy. This is how Cake Charm was born.
Top Design
I am always looking for designs that lend themselves to custom quilting. Also, many of the fabrics were so cute, I hated to cut them up to small! This is how I came up with the large snowball blocks.
You will also see that there are two rows of hourglass blocks. I created these from the remnants of the snowballs. As you may know, I hate to waste fabric. By sewing one extra line on the snowball, I was able to make quick and easy half-square triangles. I combined these to make the hourglass blocks.
NOTE: I am so bad at intentional randomness. To solve my normal tendency to control everything, I put my blocks into a paper bag. Both the snowball blocks and hourglass blocks were then pulled at random.
I recommend this process for anyone that has trouble letting go!
Custom Quilting
This is where the fun started!
I started with a Pro-Stitcher pattern that I altered to fit. Then I added hand-guided feathers and pebbles. The combination fills the space and provides lots of texture.
For the hourglass rows, I did a continuous curve, hand-guided pattern. This is a very common pattern for these blocks and fit right in.
In case you are wondering, I call this Cake Charm because the main blocks consist of layer cakes and charm packs.
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