Nine-Patches

Just a couple of pictures to show you what is coming next for my nine-patches. These will be two separate quilts, but my sewing hours are at an end until next week.

Nine-patch progress

I am so inspired by all the beautiful nine-patches I received from the swap hosted by Julie at JulieKquilts. So inspired that I plan on stretching them out to make four, maybe five quilts! The first one I am working on is based off the pattern Between Friends by Darlene at Quilting Daze. Darlene offered this as a free pattern on her blog a while back, and I printed it off to make some day. I think it works great with the two different sizes of nine-patches. I plan on adding two more borders, but I need to buy fabric for the first border. What is really cool about this is that Darlene was also one of the participants in the nine-patch exchange! I am linking this post to Judy L.'s design wall Monday.

Friday Flimsy

My Mom and I participated in a swap of these churn dash blocks 10 or 11 years ago. After my mother died, I inherited most of her quilting things - my sisters don't quilt. These blocks were tucked into a shoebox, waiting for inspiration. They were all approximate sizes, not uncommon in swap blocks. I found a book by Lynn Roddy Brown that addresses swapped blocks and used a setting from this book Simple Strategies for Block-Swap Quilts. I used fabric from my Mom's stash to complete this quilt, I know that she would have really liked this flimsy, and I know that she fully expected me to finish up some of her projects!

Finally starting to feel like fall....

I love the cooler weather of fall, it energises me! I finished up this little table topper, the inspiration came from a older magazine, Quilt Sampler 1998, I modified it a bit. It is machine appliqued and quilted.

I also pulled out my one and only store bought kit project - a pumpkin runner. The kit was for jack-o-lanterns, but I wanted to use it all of October and November, so mine is pumpkins. Last year I pieced the scraps from the pumpkins into squares and put together this quiltlet. I have pulled it out to finish the big stitch quilting on it, it would be sweet to get this finished too.

Friday Flimsy

I have had an unexpected free day last Monday, as DH was called into work early that morning. I spent my time putting together the blocks for a mystery quilt offered by Erik Homemade. I am not really pleased with my choice of sashing fabrics in this flimsy. I did not want to add the borders offered with the mystery, so I elected to leave them off. I will add this to the flimsy pile, along with the rest of the black and white fabric - there is enough there to use for binding.

The nine-patches made me do it!

I narrowed down my ideas for all those lovely nine-patches that will be here before I am ready! Then I went to Sew Unique Creations, just to window shop. Resistance was futile! Tara's service is amazing, I ordered these on Thursday and they arrived Saturday! By narrowed down, I mean I actually picked four patterns to make. That is why I needed additional fabrics! I have already started cutting and piecing some of my scraps and some of the new fabrics to include in these quilts, I have 240 flying geese to make, 12 nine-patches with light corners and center, 24 more 3" nine-patches (most of which I have made), and fifty-two more of the 6" nine-patches (I only need to make seven more in this size). I will use the flying geese as leaders and enders as I am working on the other quilts. These quilts will be my focus this fall, I know that I am really going to enjoy working on them!

I had to delay posting this for a few days as I could not get my camera to talk to my computer!

138 nine-patches are on their way...

This is what my nine-patches looked like, Julie should have them on Thursday. I have spent my morning going through books and magazine clippings for ideas on how to use them. I like so many of these patterns, I'll have to rank them in some kind of order! I already figured out how many of each size block each pattern will take. Maybe I'll figure out what kind of yardage I'll need to make each quilt, and compare that to what I have in my stash - that might help me make up my mind. What are you planning to do with yours?