First Layer Cake I have purchased. Love this fabric, but what do I make with it?

What about a big hourglass to show off that pretty material. I guess you would still have the upside down words to figure out.

Here's a couple of pretty layer cake quilts by MSQC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNP8...9C28&index=101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1I...69C28&index=21

I bought 2 pack of cake layers...my intent was to cut them in to 4, 5" squares (I am not a scrappy quilter and need more than just one of multiple prints) and then make HST's and then I'd have 8 squares of the same print. I pre wash everything so after I pre washed the cake layers...(I washed 4 print pieces 10x10)...3 of them shrunk...2 were now 9,1/2x9,1/2 inches, 1 was 93/4x9,3/4 inches and the other one was 10x10. Obviously I can't use them now to make HST's. I prefer all shrinking be done before I spend the time, effort and money making the quilts an then washing, only to take it out of the dry and have it all wrinkled looking, puckered and looking like it has been wadded up in the closet for a year! And in this case it would have been worse as I was using yardage for the contrasting square..and if I hadn't pre washed the cake layers...only the side of the HST made from the cake layer would have shrunk and the other side with the yardage would not have shrunk and it'd look stupid to have half wrinkled and half smooth. So I dont' know what I will do, other than just have them as scraps or make smaller squares to make smaller HST's.

This is one of my first layer cakes too! (the first was a berenstain bear one). I knew I wanted to make a quilt for my son's fiancee for Christmas, and I used this layer cake. I was working on it almost to the last moment, so didn't take a "proper" picture of it - I used the Urban Cabin pattern because I wanted big enough pieces for the fabric to "shine" - I also wanted a more modern looking quilt - this is the first time I've used only fabric from the entire line (other than the white sashing) - for the borders and the backing too. I ended up quilting simply - mostly quilt in the ditch and echo quilting - but I'm pleased with how it turned out. I ended up using only 25 squares of the layer cake, so I can create something else with the leftovers!
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Originally Posted by ellietow

This is one of my first layer cakes too! (the first was a berenstain bear one). I knew I wanted to make a quilt for my son's fiancee for Christmas, and I used this layer cake. I was working on it almost to the last moment, so didn't take a "proper" picture of it - I used the Urban Cabin pattern because I wanted big enough pieces for the fabric to "shine" - I also wanted a more modern looking quilt - this is the first time I've used only fabric from the entire line (other than the white sashing) - for the borders and the backing too. I ended up quilting simply - mostly quilt in the ditch and echo quilting - but I'm pleased with how it turned out. I ended up using only 25 squares of the layer cake, so I can create something else with the leftovers!
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Thats a great pattern.... what is it called?

You could do almost any of the patterns that use a charm square with a layer cake instead - you might have to adjust some measurements (like if you do the disappearing 4 patch - I would cut a wider strip), but they would all look good in the larger size. I do love the double slice, but if some of it is directional, you might have to be careful with that.

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Originally Posted by turena65

Thats a great pattern.... what is it called?

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Urban Cabin

Urban Cabin Designer Pattern: Robert Kaufman Fabric Company

Amazon.com - Atkinson Urban Cabin Quilt Pattern

Perfect! Thank you... :)

I love he Sliced Twice pattern.... You could throw in a couple if solids..or near solids.... The fabrics are so pretty...

With the hearts and love graphics, in the fabrics, what about a quilt with hearts as a block? I had fabric that looked very similar to this line and I made a Tula Pink design that has big hearts on it. It is basically a chevron quilt with one side of the chevron made into the top of the hearts by snowballing the corners. Here's the one I made, it came from a book called Sew Red for Women.

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My version
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Closeup of the block
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Tula Pink's version from the book.