This layer cake quilt tutorial is going to be a breeze to sew.
There are no bias edges, and you are only cutting the block once… it couldn’t get any easier!
Great for a beginner quilter or if you are in need of a quilt fast!
The previous patterns using a layer cake are the chevron layer cake quilt tutorial and the Square on Point layer cake quilt tutorial. Both have instructions you can follow and sew up yourself!
No other fabrics were used besides the layer cake package…or 10″ X 10″ squares you cut yourself. This really is so the quilt ends up to be a nice size and you don’t have to purchase any additional things for sashing or borders.
What is a Layer Cake?
A layer cake is a piece of fabric that is cut to the size of 10″ x 10″
They can come all together in a collection of the full fabric line, or they can be cut by yourself from the stash that you have on hand.
Either works – and they are the perfect size for layering together and cutting together. They can really make sewing a quilt quick and simple.
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Single Slice Layer Cake Materials
layer cake or 40– 10″ X 10″ squares
backing, batting and binding
This is a single slice layer cake pattern. That means that not much of the fabric will be lost because you are only cutting the square once.
That’s it.
I tried to make these quilts as large as I could– without loosing fabric in the seams and a lot of cuts.
This layout is similar to the rail fence quilt block…except that it’s missing one rail. So instead of 3 fence rails…it’s just 2.
Single Slice Layer Cake Quilt Tutorial~
1- Lay two squares together, right sides are facing
2- Sew down two sides of the squares- opposite each other
3- Cut down the center of the square
4- Open the pieces and press
5- Sew the quilt blocks into rows of —— rotating every other quilt block
6- Finish with layering your top, batting and backing
7- Machine quilt as you like. I did a very large meander on this quilt. It was made to get used and washed. Needed something quick, simple and durable to last.
I did the foldover binding (super simple and great for these kind of usable quilts) Here’s a video on binding with the backing if you’d like to see how it’s done.
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This is part of a tiny series using layer cakes. Interested in seeing what else you can make using them? Check out all the tutorials here.
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Here are the other layer cake quilts– Square on Point
More Layer Cake Fun:
- 10+ layer cake quilt patterns
- Chevron Layer cake quilt pattern
- Quadripoint Layer cake quilt pattern
- Square on point layer cake quilt pattern
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This is awesome, I have some layer cakes and needed a quilt to use them in, this will be super easy and won’t take much time. Thank you!
get rid of the stash of fabric i have
When you turn these the pieces don’t line up. Meaning one side is longer than the other. Did I miss something?
After sewing, the blocks will be 9 1/2 x 10, don’t we have to square them up. Also, looking at your photo of the layout of this quilt, we don’t need 40 10 inch squares, we would need 42.
Trim of 1/2″ from the open end before sewing them together and it works fine.
*off…….I meant off
I am doing charity quilts for cancer kids so this pattern will be great to use…nice and easy and will hand quilt up very fast
Don’t you also have to cut 1/2 inch off the length of the block? after you sew the two blocks together and then cut in half, it will only be 9 1/2 inches. So according to your directions the blocks won’t be square.
Help out a newbie quilter! Like others have commented, the blocks don’t line up once rotated. Are we meant to trim 1/2″ off the longer blocks?
I would trim everything up to one size. So they all match. If you have enough for a row with that size and another row with another size, that could be an option as well – but your eye my not like that!