Rainbow Cubic Quilt

 

When I first started getting into quilting, my mom and I went to a local quilt show. They had so many beautiful quilts to admire and inspire, and they had a great selection of venders with more inspiration and the fabrics to match. As a door prize, there was a raffle and out of some freak of luck, I won a prize! That never happens. 

 

The prize was a beautiful pack of eighths that were all the same pattern but different colors in a rainbow. I loved them, but I didn’t know what I was going to do with them so they were put away for safe keeping.

 

 

Over the years, my quilting skills improved and I became interested in trying a cubic quilt. During the pandemic, the fabric pack came out and I started to think it might be a good fabric for a cubic quilt. While I was confident with angled sewing, I decided to try using a cheater method that uses strip quilting to create half-hexagons and then sew things together in a row to create the cubic illusion.

 

 

 

It worked really well and came together mostly quickly. The slowest part was having it on the floor for layout. My cats thought it was a great runway and tried to change my sewing order a few times. Such creative spirits.

 

 

 

 

Once all the cubes were sewn together, I felt like the quilt needed a border to pull it together. I kept it simple, matching the grey in the quilt to the grey in the border. I also used the grey for the binding, creating a nice simple border to frame the quilt.

 

 

I found this great neutral backing at the LQS that was perfect for this project. Darker than the grey on the front, but still in the same shade group and the flowers were just too cute.

 

 

I used the basic meander again for this quilt because of the scrappy nature of the quilt. However, when quilting I only quilted on the white and grey. I didn’t quilt on the colors at all. It creates a nice puffed up look for the colors, really making them pop out from the quilt.

 

 

This quilt was a fun experiment and challenge. I really enjoyed figuring out how to get this to work, and it’s fun to look at it and get confused about where the cubes are going. Now my cats can sleep on it without a re-design too.  We’re all winning.