Wednesday 23 February 2011

Disappearing nine-patch

At Rocheberie Quilters in Rugby, Jane and I recently organised a sewing day. Each person needed to bring eight ready prepared 9-patches and some toning fabric. On the day, they cut thier 9-patches into quarters, and then, using their toning fabric, used the quarters to make half square triangles. We adapted an idea from 'Slice 'Em and Dice 'Em Quilts' by Nancy Brenan Daniel. I forgot to take photos of the nine patches, but here is the resulting block. You get two blocks like this from every 9-patch.


You can see the two little squares in the centre were from the central (dark) square. Nancy sashed hers, which looks great but we didn't give any quilt assembly instructions, leaving people to discover what was best for them. Here are my blocks arranged in a kind of lattice design.

To say these were all donated fabrics from the Linus box, the result is really stunning - and it was very easy! Nancy has some really clever ideas in her book, which I can thoroughly recommend.

4 comments:

loulee said...

Your colours make me think of Australia. Fire and flood!

Liz said...

I really love your quilt Linda. It looks quite different to mine which is a top waiting for thread to arrive so I can quilt it. Can't wait to see other completed quilts next meeting.

Contented Caroline said...

lOVE THOSE COLOURS lYNDA - LOOKS FABULOUS AND HEARD LOTS OF POSITIVE FROM SOME OF MY FRIDAY MORNING LADIES THAT WENT TO THE EVENT.

Sew Create It - Jane said...

Looks great! Can't wait for the March meeting to see how the ladies put them together.