The Traveling Quilts ~ Round Six

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Last week I finished my latest round of The Traveling Quilts Bee. This iteration, I had Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson's quilt. No pressure, right? ;)

Elizabeth's quilt is 80's themed. She found some really, really bright fabrics to send along with the quilt. I'm talking neon! This is how the quilt looked when I received it.

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So many people had already added amazing things to the quilt. Check out the Pac Man by Monica! Genius.

I was going back and forth on a few ideas. MTV logo, Cindy Lauper silhouette. In the end, I'm not that good of a sewist for those. :) But I knew I could do a Rubik cube! I did a little searching on Google Images and found a nice Rubik graphic. I opened it up in Photoshop and traced the lines to come up with a bit of a paper piecing template.

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I printed the image out and cut it into sections based on each side of the Rubik Cube. Then I cut those sides into strips and paper pieced each strip.

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Once I had the strips sewn together to form each side, I pieced them together as I would any Y-Seam. That was a little trickier than anything I've done, as I not only had to line up the y-seam, but also the seams of the color squares on the Rubik Cube.

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Elizabeth's quilt also uses some black and white prints. I dug around in my stash and found this older Seagull print (Alexander Henry I think?). Since this is an 80's themed quilt, I thought it was a bit clever and reminded me of the band Flock of Seagulls. Hopefully you don't hate the band Elizabeth!

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I've mailed the quilt on to Ashley and am excited to see what she adds!

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