Catching up on Cake Talk

Block 10 of the Layer Cake Quilt Along will be LIVE on the Moose on the Porch Quilts today!

Here's how my Block 9s turned out. . .



This was my initial layout plan for Block 9 of the Layer Cake Quilt Along.
As you can see, there was not enough contrast between the coral prints to make the layout work.
You can see how I arrived at my fabric selections for this block in my previous cake post here.



I switched the coral bricks out for green ones. This layout still doesn't work - the illusion of the corners folding in doesn't work because the yellow is too strong.




I decided to go with layout number 4 instead! I'm happy with it and like the shoo-fly that reveals itself in the coral print, and the turquoise square.





Layout 1 didn't work out for my Christmas fat quarter block either. Instead I ended up with layout option 2. The green ovals is my background print. It only works because it is a smaller scale than the black print with the large ornaments. If I had had more green solid left I might have been able to achieve layout 1.



Can you tell I really liked layout 1?! You can see some great examples of it at the Layer Cake Quilt Along flickr pool.



With Joy,
Sarah Vee