Do you like layer cakes? Do you like to bake cakes? If you are talking to a sewist, those questions might be code. You might not be talking about baked goods at all. You might be talking about fabric and quilting!
Moda offers precut 10” fabric squares in packages that it calls Layer Cakes. Carrie Nelson, who designs quilt patterns for Moda under the name Miss Rosie's Quilt Co, has created a clever set of patterns for Layer Cakes called Moda Cake Mix Recipes.
So, what is a Moda Cake Mix Recipe? Miss Rosie's Quilt Co Cake Mix Recipes are pads of 44 foundation papers for use in paper piecing quilt blocks. Paper piecing is a technique for building blocks that helps quilters create crisp angles on geometric designs. The paper pattern and fabric are sewn together which helps create precision when sewing the seams. The paper is removed once the whole block is constructed. Therefore, using paper that will sustain handling but remove easily is essential.
Moda Cake Mix papers have been designed to be easy to use. The sewing instructions are printed on the Moda recipe papers–called recipe cards. The front and inside covers of the Cake Mix quilt pattern pads give instructions for stitching the recipe cards as well as constructing and arranging the blocks–all of which are based on squares or triangles.
Each pad of 44 “recipe cards” has patterns for three to six different quilt blocks. The sewist is free to decide whether to use one, two, three, or more of Miss Rosie’s quilt patterns from a pad or even mix patterns from different pads. A Moda blogger suggested making copies of the blocks shown on the front cover of the Cake Mix Recipe quilts pad, cutting these apart, and then arranging and rearranging these photocopied blocks to plan a unique Cake Mix Recipe quilt.
If you have never tried paper piecing, watch the tutorial below which shows you how to use Cake Mix Recipes from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. for Moda Fabrics. Then, choose a Cake Mix and a Cake Mix Recipe designed by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co for Moda, and follow the directions! You might find that creating a quilt using these Carrie Nelson quilt patterns may be an easy treat to bake–maybe even as easy as baking your favorite cake!
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