The Traveling Quilts ~ Round Six

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!