9-patch...Done

I've measured it, and the size is about 50 x 70. If I add borders it's just going to be too large (if I make them 3 inches...the size of the sashing) so I think I'm going to stop here. I might add a 1 inch border so I have something without seams to sew the binding to. Someone suggested I use a striped fabric for the binding. That sounds fun, and I have some great stripes so I'll figure out which one to use. I'm going to find a white (pity the poor person that gets this) fleece for the backing. though I guess I could use a pastel of some kind, that might be a better idea...then not quite so bad in terms of dirt.

I'm pretty sure the local Hancock Fabrics is having a sale on no-pill fleece this weekend, so I'll go down and see what I find. I think I know who is going to get this one, another niece (I have many). This turned out better than I thought it would when I first got the blocks. I guess white can really set things off too, especially a disparate group of blocks like this.

Hey, I made a scrappy quilt, and I didn't have to make a big mess!

What's on My Design Wall 10-12

These are the 9-patch blocks I got from a swap a while ago. Didn't know what I was going to do, so thought I'd keep it simple. I was just going to throw them on the wall and sew them together, but it looked too messy. So I kind of grouped the like colors together, and this is what I got. It works for me. I can't decide if I should add borders about the same width, or leave it without borders and quilt it from here...what do you think?

Check out every elses design wall on Judy's site here.

Freeze Frame Quilt for an Hour

Here is the quilt top, finished. Doesn't look much like Judy's original, but I like it. I feel pretty good because I used up set aside fabric, and bits from a quilt I was never going to make, and it's done.

Bloggers Quilt Festival

I think this is my favorite quilt--simple but I love the way it looks. I took a class from Ricky Tims sometime before 2003 and bought 4 different yard cuts of his multi-colored fabric. It's been around since then, waiting to be made. Sometime after that I bought a template for a drunkards path quilt, and sometime after that I bought the curve master foot. I have a friend at work who also quilts, and we decided to have a quilt retreat--just the two of us.

These purchases all came together to make this quilt. I was a garment sewer before I became a quilter, so the curved piecing didn't freak me out. We sat, and sewed and chatted, and by the end of the weekend I had all the curved pieced blocks done. I decided used one yard of the Ricky Tims fabric, and needed to add the second yard for the border blocks. I almost never make pieced borders, but this quilt seemed to call for them. I used Eleanor Burns' method for making the flying geese. I got 4 each time, and they're trimmed to size, so were exactly right. I tend to play around with Paint (the software program) to see if my ideas will look like I hope, and when I showed my friend the idea of the flying geese, she didn't like it much. I decided to go ahead, and when I showed her the completed top, she said I was right, it added just the right touch.


In all the years I've been quilting, I've never made a quilt just for my husband, so when it was up on my design wall, I looked at it and asked him what he thought. He liked it lots, so I gave it to him.


The quilting is pretty amazing as well. I am working with another friend on setting up a web site for her, and she is quilting some tops for me. This is one I didn't want to do myself, so searched to find an angular pattern to use on the top. I also took a while to pick out the thread, and ended up with a multi-colored bright. All together I think the top is delicious, and a group effort that I had so much fun doing.

QFAH with the Next Border

I'm liking it much better now. The top and bottom borders are already attached, the two side borders, not yet. Not only did I use some blocks I had made, but I like this a lot too. Because I wasn't too sure of the colors, having more blocks in those colors wouldn't have been a good thing, I think this works just fine.

This is also my What's on Your Design wall post. If you want to see more, check out Judy's blog.

Quilt for an Hour-Border

I thought I was going to have the 9-patch blocks going different directions, but I didn't pay attention when I sewed on the first part of the border, so they'll be going all the same direction. I guess that's the way they were supposed to go!

Border Mock-Up

I have these 9-patches that were going to go in the original quilt (that I am now not making) and I would like to use them. I think they'll look just fine as the border in the quilt. I've done my thing in Paint, and I think they'll work. Plus, I have them already made, so that should speed things up some. What do you think, my version above, and Judy's below.