Just One Layer Cake Makes A Quilt Top || Easy Free Pattern!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- 🍁 Let's Make A Layer Cake Quilt! 🍁
We will use just one layer cake to make this stunning quilt top. Come along to have some quilting fun as we explore this free pattern and free quilting tutorial.
You can use whatever fabric layer cake you'd like (even scraps!) to make this beauty. Although this looks like a disappearing nine-patch, it isn't. It is much easier, too!
This is the fabric line I used in this tutorial: Forest Frolic by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics
Color Tool with Ruby Beholder: Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool
Here are the supplies you will need:
(1) Layer Cake or (36) 10" Squares (18 Light/18 Dark)
Rotary Cutter
Ruler: 9" or larger
Helpful: 6.5" Ruler
General Sewing Supplies:
Sewing Machine, Iron,
Matching Thread, etc.
Let's get starting sewing some patchwork!
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Karen Brown's Color Theory Playlist: • Colour Theory - How to...
Double Slice Pattern by Jenny Doan at Missouri Star Quilt Company: free-scrap-management-worksheet
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Finished my entire quilt top today. I have NEVER matched seams as well as I have with this quilt. I have never had someone explain in such easy terms, the process of squaring up the blocks. Thank you!
Oh my goodness! YAY! I am so happy this tutorial was helpful! That's what it is all about! I just did the Happy Dance in my living room! Yay! Yay! Yay!
Thank you so much for sharing and your kindness AND for making this quilt! You made my day! ❤️
I love this video & your way of explaining things. I'm not a beginner but learned a few things on this video. Thanks. I will subscribe.
I love a clear concise TH-cam. Well done 🧵
Thank you so much! Glad you like it! ❤️
Being a newbie this looks so easy. I love the layer cake colors that you did in scraps. I think it’s great to also do the scrappy version. Because color and values are so much harder in the beginning. Thanks for the quilt demo. And I think it’s great to show us older quilts. 😊
So happy you like my videos! Welcome to quilting. Such a wonderful hobby! ❤️
Touché
I am going to try one and see if I can do it with two different 5 inch packs. Very good video.
Thank you! I am sure you can! That would be awesome. Great idea!
I am going to make it so very pretty
Yay! I love that you are going to make this! Let me know if you have any questions! ❤️
Love it will be trying this quilt
YAY! I love that you are going to try this one! Let me know if you have any questions!
New subscriber ❤
Yay! Welcome! Thank you so much! ❤️
More tutorials like this to come.
I cool way to use up a few layer cakes I just had to have, even though I didn't have a pattern in mind. I know no one else does that.😊
😂 Guilty! 😂
So happy you are going to make this! It is a fun one, for sure! Thank you for watching!
Wow! Thank you!!
You are so welcome! ❤️🍁❤️
Beautiful job. I plan on trying to make this quilt soon. Thanks for the video!
You are so welcome! I love that you are going to make it. That is always the best compliment. ❤️
Thank you so much! 🥰
Loved this video! I can’t wait to try it.
Yay! Thank you! So glad you like it! It is fun to make!
KRIS, you're the best. You explain things so well. Love your videos.
Yay! Thank you so much! So happy you enjoy my teaching style and my videos. 🥰
I love this quilt top ! I just found you today. I have always been partial to the Autumnal colors. The directions you give are right on point. I am subscribing today and can't wait to see more videos ! 😉
Oh, thank you so much! 🥰 I love that you are enjoying my content and that you subscribed! Thank you!! 🥰
Beautiful, will have to try this!
Thank you! So glad you like it!
I’ve just discovered your quilt and I love it. I’ve liked and subscribed
I’m newish to quilting and I’m in uk
Thank you! Welcome to my channel and to quilting! ❤️ It is an amazing hobby with amazing people. Quilters are the best! Let me know if you have any questions! Happy to help!
Easy, really EASY to make! I made three quilts in less than two weeks using this pattern. Great tutorial; easy to understand and follow.
Oh my goodness! Did you really? That is amazing! I would love to see them! My email is sewthedistance@gmail.com if you'd like to share photos (do NOT feel you have to!). Thank you so much! I love this! It really made my day. When I make tutorials, I never know if others will make the projects or not and am thrilled when they do. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🥰
I'm just getting back to quilting after 20ish years. This tutorial was so clear - I think after I finish my husband's 9 patch, I'll do this pattern. Love the quilting you showed on your sample table runner too. I don't have a long arm. I'm from the days of hand quilting, so everything will either be machine or hand quilted. Hoping to start now and make a quilt for all my family members (6 brothers, 2 adult children, and a niece), so I better get busy. Now if only quilting fabric hadn't gone up in price LOL
Welcome back to quilting! I love this! I don't have a longarm either, so I usually quilt on my domestic machine or send my quilts to a longarmer. I would love to learn to hand quilt. I have done a little bit of it, but not much. Glad you are back to quilting!
Beautiful!
Thank you! 🥰
Love it. Please show us the completed pieced top from your handmade layer cake. Love the pinks and purples?
Thank you so much! I will! Hope to get that one done, too! ❤️
I love quilts that don't take weeks to make. I will definitely be trying this.
Yay! So happy you are going to make it! ❤️
Thank you for the helpful tutorial. Making charity quilts for our Guild. 💕🌸🧵
You are so welcome!
LOVE that you are making this for charity! Thank you so much for watching and sharing this wonderful idea! ❤️
Enjoying the replay ❤
So glad you're enjoying it! Thank you for watching it again!
YOU KNOW COLOR LIKE AN ART TEACHER !!! GIVE YOU THREE CHEERS !!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND YOUR PASSION !!!
Oh, thank you so much! It took me many years to figure out colors in quilts. ❤️ Although with this project it is kind of easy since the bundle of fabric is already made for you. Still, I will take the compliment. 🥰
Not having a 6 ½" ruler, I cut the 3 ½"piece first. Worked great.
Awesome! Great idea!
Beautiful quilt. Another one for my list of quilts to make.
Thank you! 🥰 I love that you are going to make it!
Excellent tutorial. My adult son wants a new quilt so I’m Going to use this pattern after the holidays. Also as others said a great quilt pattern for Project Linus
That's awesome! So happy you love this and are going to use this for your son's quilt! I love that it has inspired charity quilts, too! This all makes my heart happy. Thank you for watching and sharing!
I'm new to quilting - this seems like something I could easily do!!! And, gosh do I love that fabric. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, instruction, inspiration and encouragement !!!!
You are so welcome! I am thrilled you are going to make this!
Also, welcome to quilting! Let me know if you have any questions. I am happy to help! 🥰
Thanks for this great layer cake video. I appreciate the quick and through way you lay out the process and make sure to help us with how to make sure the blocks are squared up. Great for a layer cake that has many large flowers. I’ll be watching more of your videos.
Thank you so much! I am glad you like it! This would be perfect with big prints. I may have to try that. ❤️
very nice!
Thank you! ❤️
Love that Robin Pickens line. Your quilt is beautiful. Thanks for the video. I can’t wait to make one.
You are so welcome!
YAY! I am thrilled you are going to make one! ❤️ Thank you so much!
I love this! Anytime I can chain piece, I am a happy camper!
Absolutely!! Chain piecing for the win! 😎 So glad you love this!
Nice!
Thanks! ❤️
Brilliant
Thank you! 😎
Thanks love your instructions.
My pleasure! So glad you love this! Thanks for watching!
Love the tutorial. Easy, clear to understand. I like that it took only one layer cake.
Thanks so much! 😊 So happy it is helpful!
Bravo Great thank you for sharing and your zest!
Thank you too! 😎
This would be so easy! And I know I have so many layer cakes! LOL
Me too! 😂 So glad you love this! Super easy and fun, too!
I like the idea of almost zero waste. The quilt turn out gorgeous, thanks for sharing
YES! I love that, too! Thank you so much! ❤️
That's is soooo awesome
Thank you! So happy you love it!
New subscriber here, I’m so glad i stumbled across this video. I now know what to do with all those layer cakes sitting on a shelf in my sewing room.
Yay! Welcome! I am so happy you are here, too!! Thank you so much! I am honored and thrilled that this video is inspiring you. 🥰
@@SewtheDistance and I just noticed I am signed in under my husbands name😅 I’ll go sign in under my name and subscribe again lol
No worries! I have done the same thing before. 😂
Thank you! Great job! I am going to try this. ❤
You are so welcome! So glad you like it! ❤️
Very pretty. I want to make a Christmas one.
Oh, that would be beautiful! Please share it on my Facebook page if you do! I would love to see it!
Beautiful fabrics❤️👍
Aren't they great? Love them, too!
I just finished a quilt top using the Double Slice Layer Cake. I think I will use this pattern for my next quilt. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful! Yay! You are so welcome! Thank you for watching!
Nice quilt idea. I have a few layer cakes waiting to be turned into quilts. Thank you.
You are so welcome! I love they you will be making this one. It is a ton of fun! ❤️
I love your enthusiasm!! Beautiful work and i appreciate your tips and explanations. Thanks
So happy you love this! It’s a fun one!
You have some nice patterns.
Thank you! More to come, too! ❤️
You speak my language ❤ Thank you
Yay! My pleasure! ❤️ Thank you so much!
“The magic of TH-cam” is actually all of your hard work, Kris. Another one layer quilt that could come in handy when you need a quilt fast.
Thank you for the tutorial!
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Thank you so much! It means a lot that you see the work that goes into these!
@@SewtheDistance Oh, I know it’s a full time endeavor to make it look so effortless and magical.
Love it
Yay! Thank you! So glad you love it! ❤️
Love it, very easy to follow the steps. Will make one soon. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome! So happy you are going to make one! Love that!
I absolutely love watching your tutorials!
Yay! That's so wonderful to hear! Thank you so much!
love the idea of making something look complicated when it only takes a few minutes of fancy cutting the fabric! Thanks for a great quilt idea
You are so welcome! Glad it is helpful!
I love layer cake pre-cuts because of the beautiful prints that already co-ordinate and one gets to use the whole collection! This is a great pattern to show off a collection and I appreciate that there was no additional yardage to make up the blocks. This will enter my rotation right away; I have three layer cakes to choose from already in my stash! Thanks for your enthusiasm and excellent content!
My pleasure! I am so excited that you are already have this project planned! YAY! I love the way it highlights these beauties, too! I can't wait to make more. ❤️
I'm so glad I found this video today! I really like this quilt a lot. And you have a NEW subscriber! 🤩😸
Wow! Thank you and welcome! ❤️ So happy you love it! It’s a fun one to make! ❤️
I love this. Great job
Thank you so much! 🥰
Thank you so much for your wonderful video! I am a newbie to quilting and you make it look fun and doable!! Thanks again!!
Yay! That is so great to hear! I hope you enjoy the project!
Hi, I really enjoy your videos,I will try this but I think I will add a border, thanks so much!!
Thank you! So glad you like these. Love the idea of adding a border. That will be amazing! Thank you for watching and sharing! 🥰
Brenda from Mt. Scrapmore sent me! I really like this, thank you. Easy to follow instructions. 😻
Awesome! Thank you!
My pleasure! So happy you like it! ❤️
I love this pattern! Thanks!
Glad you like it! You are so welcome! ❤️
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial! I finished the quilt in about a week of occasionally working on it. It turned out so cute 🥰
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's so rewarding to see how fast you can make a quilt top with this pattern.
Easy peasy love it!
Yay! So happy you like it!
I found the video. I’m going to start a baby quilt today
I saw this a long time ago. Now to finish it before Luke is in college
You got this! Happy Quilting! 🥰
Beautiful. Love those colors. I think I may have enough Halloween fabric
So happy you love it! A Halloween quilt would be so cool in this pattern! Thank you for sharing. ❤️
I love this ideal you done a great job!!!! I like the picture ideal because I can’t tell the difference sometimes!!!😊😊😊😊
Thank you so much!! I can’t trust my eyes either. Sometimes I am so surprised at what I think is a dark, being a light and vice versa. 😁 It’s an extra step but it’s worth it in my opinion. ❤️
Wonderful!
Many thanks! 🥰
I love this quilt. I can't wait to try it. I guess if I wanted a queen size I would make more blocks and add them on.
So glad you love this! Yes, you could easily make this bigger with more blocks. Great idea!
Love the orange colours❤
Ohhhh, me, too! It is my favorite color! 🧡
Love that flannel board!!
Thank you! It works great!
Thank you for your lovely tutorial.
You’re welcome 😊 Glad it is helpful! ❤️
This is fabulous!!!! I want to make one!!!Thank you!!
You are so welcome! I love that you are going to make one! So much fun to make!
Great video. I love your enthusiasm.Very easy to follow. I am going to give this a try with a layer cake I have had forever and didn't know what to do with it since I only had one
Thank you so much! 🥰
Yay! I am thrilled you are going to make this! Thank you so for sharing! ❤️
To check your values, use your cell phone on BLACK AND WHITE. I use this all the time now! Thank you forv this tip!!!
Yay! You are so welcome! Thank you for watching. ❤️
This is my next quilt. Thanks for the demonstration.
My pleasure!
Yay! I love that you are going to make it! That’s what it’s all about! 🤩
I'm a Project Linus Coordinator in California and I am always looking for free patterns my volunteers can use. This is perfect! Easy but looks complex! Beautiful job!
Oh my goodness! This makes me so happy!!! Thank you for all you do! ❤️
Fabulous! just fabulous!
Thank you! So glad you like this! 😍
Great quilt , thanks for sharing. Enjoyed
Thank you so much! Glad you love it! Thank you for watching. 🥰
Yes I love the fabric and the pattern. The double slice is one I seem to always go to. And I love your spirit, SAS and genuine uniqueness.
I love Jenny Doan too, but you are a breath of fresh air. I look forward to finding more of your tutorials
WOW! Thank you so much! This made my day!
Jenny is a true pioneer in the field, specifically in the TH-cam arena. I am honored to be in this space with her. I am so flattered by this comment! Thank you! 🥰
I have many more tutorials out there and many more to come! ❤️
I must try this, Thank you for sharing your talents with me. Happy quilting!!!!
So happy you love this! It is my pleasure! ❤️
Love these colors, the pattern and looks fast and easy. (Have to put it on my list for now...but my near future.)
It really is easy and fast! I hope you get to make it soon!
I’m in love with this fabric. I’ve been admiring a month or two. So happy I found your channel - subscribed
Thank you!!! Welcome to my channel. 🥰
This fabric line is amazing! I can’t wait to try it with other layer cakes, too! So happy you love it. ❤️
Love it Going to make it!!!❤️❤️
YAY! So glad you like it! Love that you are making it! Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help!
Gonna make one! Have a whole bunch of scrappy 10” blocks just waiting 😊
That makes me so happy! I love that you will be making one! It will be great scrappy!
You are so pleasant to listen to and thanks for sharing your ideas. Its a very pretty quilt top.
Awww! Thank you so much! You are so sweet! ❤️
Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing. ❤👍from Somerset UK
You’re welcome! Thank you for your kind words and for watching. ❤️🥰❤️
Great video Kris
Thank you, Susan! I hope all is well! Miss seeing you. ❤️
Gorgeous fabric that works great with your lovely pattern!
Thank you! I love this fabric (and pattern), too! I am quickly becoming a huge fan of Robin Pickens.
Gorgeous fabrics, I just found you! Yay!
Aren’t they great?
I’m so glad you found me! 🥰
Wow it’s a gorgeous quilt. I love fall.
Thank you! 😊 Me, too! It is my favorite season!
I would make this quilt, love it. I will have to find or make a layer cake. Thanks Kris for the great pattern❤
My pleasure! So happy you are going to make this! ❤️
Great quilt!!!! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome! Glad you like it! ❤️🍁❤️
love that your layer cake pattern actually needs & uses most of a layer cake square. (I've ran into too many that could be made with a jelly roll or 5 inch squares instead. Pet peeve of mine.)
So glad you like this! I have the same pet peeve! I never know what to do with those left over blocks or strips. So frustrating. ❤️
Love the quilt. I will make one for sure.
YAY! I love hearing that! I hope you love making it as much as I did! ❤️
I love the way you showed how to do this quilt. I have previously watch the double slice by MSQ and I messed it all up I think I will be able to do this one by your different tips. I will be going to quilt retreat in 3 weeks. I think this is one I am going to attempt to do I have many layer cakes to use so this will be a good way to use them. I am thinking I would kind of like to do a border or two, any suggestions please. This was a very clear and concise tutorial.
Thank you so much! I am thrilled you love this one! I will be great on a retreat. It works up quickly and is so much fun!
As for borders, love the idea! I haven't finished mine yet (I need to!) and was thinking about putting borders on them. Because the quilt has a lot of movement, I am going to go with a small orange print as a skinny inner border (1.5" or so) and then a dark brown as an outer border (4-5"), but I think this really lends itself to anything you'd like. Hope this helps!
Thanks again for watching and sharing! ❤️
This is a lovely unique pattern that's easy peasy...
Thank you! So glad you like it. ❤️
Easy pattern with awesome results😊
Yes! So glad you like it! It’s a fun one! ❤️
I think I'll make a Christmas one, but larger. Thanks for sharing idea!❤
That’s a great idea! So glad you like it and are going to make one!
Great tutorial!
Thank you!
Love how that turned out
Thank you! Me, too! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for watching!