FREE Pattern for Your Cakes

Yum, yum! Cake! Oh, not that kind of cake (though I'm always game for cake). I mean those packs of 10" squares called Layer Cakes. This is a repost from 2 years ago and is something to revisit.

Today I share a quilt pattern called Washington's Puzzle. Traditionally made using funky templates, I converted it using my Magic Stax© technique. I posted about this in 2017 using some Benartex fabrics. I came up with the idea in early 2000 and created several patterns.

Here is a set of 1/3 yard cuts I was sent to work with. They are truly color drenched! And if you stay with me, you can have the FREE PATTERN. Think "blender" or "batiks" or anything that reads solid.

Color Flow fabrics by Carol Bryer Fallert

While many others have done something similar, mine is unique in that the number of patches in a block determines how many squares are in a stack. The stack gets cut ALL at the same time (make sure your rotary cutter has a new blade.) AND - there will be NO bias edges all around as you get using those funky rulers.

Also, my cutting is NOT RANDOM. All of my blocks in this series (15 different ones) are based on traditional blocks and a line drawing of them.

10-1/2" squares of Color Flow

I chose to update my Washington Puzzle quilt with these fabrics. Here is my Washington Puzzle quilt from 2007 (probably the fifth quilt in my series):

Washington Puzzle

Here is my simple line drawing of Washington Puzzle on a piece of freezer paper. This is crucial to getting the accuracy in cutting. There will be NO bias edges along the outside, either.  And no fabric waste (as in using the specialty rulers).

4 lines drawn on freezer paper (10-1/2" square)

FREE pattern for my Color Flow Puzzle

Here is my Color Flow Puzzle up close:

Color Flow Puzzle quilt

Go check it out. Another fun way with stacks of 10-1/2" squares. THIS WILL ALSO WORK WITH 10" SQUARES, because the cutting begins by finding the center (5"), so if you have a bundle of Layer Cake squares (10"), then you're half way there!