Charming Nine
Nice variation of the classic nine patch!
Last weekend I drove down to Denver so that I could see the Denver National Quilt Festival. It's sponsored by Mancuso, the same show managers of the Pacific International Quilt Festival that I normally go to see at Santa Clara,...
The Improved Nine Patch A very popular 20th-century pattern Particularly in scrappy pastels with white ovals between the nine patches There is no square block. It's BlockBase #306. Today we call it Improved Nine Patch or Glorified Nine Patch. The first name was published in the Rural New Yorker in February 1930, pretty early in the 1930s quilt revival. Most of the quilts were probably made from this 1933 Kansas City Star design. It takes some piecing skill for the curves but quilters were crazy about Double Wedding Rings at the time so this design of similar construction fit right in. Although someone at the Star thought this would be a good beginner's quilt in 1935. The Quilt Index has quite a few Lulu Schock from the West Virginia Project & the Quilt Index. Including some two color variations. From the Indiana Project & the Quilt Index. Mary E. Garrett worked in a clothing factory and made hers out of factory cutaways---shirt chambrays. All these look to have been pieced after the pattern appeared in 1930. I had BlockBase draw a pattern to fit on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Print this out for a 6-/12" circle. You might want to turn it into a block. Dolores Hinson published it this way in her 1978 book A Quilter's Companion and Quilters Newsletter sold templates for this block about the same time. UPDATE: I found a block-style pattern, probably the earliest published in Comfort magazine, maybe in the 1920s. Hammock Quilt Block Merikay Waldvogel let me photograph Mildred Dickerson's scrapbooks of patterns and this drawing by Mildred (?) shows it with a different name than we'd use. Templates might be the answer. Fons & Porter sell some here: http://www.shopfonsandporter.com/product/Glorified-Nine-Patch-Template-Set/fabric-and-notions Or just go to eBay and buy a quilt. Dated 1965 And by the way, any nine patch could be improved with polka dots.
Charming Nine
Informazioni sullo schema: un giorno ero in biblioteca con le mie ragazze e ho notato il libro Anne Arrives nella sezione bambini. È scritto da Kallie George e basato sul libro Anne of Green Gables, della mia autrice preferita, Lucy Maud Montgomery. All'interno del libro ho trovato una bellissima illustrazione dell'artista Abigail Halpin di Anne nascosta nel letto sotto una colorata trapunta a nove toppe. Sapevo che dovevo dare vita a questa illustrazione! Mia figlia di 9 anni è stata così gentile da posare come Anne Shirley in queste foto. Livello di abilità: intermedio I punti utilizzati includono cat, m.bss, mb, ma, m.m.a. per il bordo Dimensioni finite: puoi realizzare questa trapunta in qualsiasi dimensione desiderata. La trapunta campione era lunga 5 quadrati x larga 4 quadrati e misurava ca. 40” x 50”, compreso il bordo. Materiali: • Filato pettinato nei colori a scelta – ca. 1650 iarde. Vedi le note sulla distanza in metri per quadrato all'interno del modello. • Misura dell'uncinetto H (5,0 mm) Il modello è scritto in termini americani standard.
I used to be the kind of quilter who signed up for every workshop my quilt guild offered, started the project being taught at each retreat I went to, got involved in every block swap my online quilt group dreamed up, and joined in every round robin that came along. Uh huh......some of you know exactly what I am talking about. And that's how you end up with all those UFO's! So, naturally in 2002 when the Blooming Nine Patch was going to be taught at my guild retreat, I just had to make one. I asked Aaron and Leah, who were "just friends" and both art majors, to help me select the fabrics. We had a blast at the quilt shop and these are the fabrics we came home with ...... One of the tools we used to organize our fabrics at retreat was this sheet ..... Even though this quilt is partially strip-pieced it's difficult to keep all the pieces lined up and in the right order. Then, as you can see, I added several rows because I wanted it to end up a King size. Once it was coming together into a completed top, it was obvious that it wasn't going to look really finished unless it had a darker final border so I added even more rows, this fabric..... .....and a black Moda Marble. NOW it looks finished. And it's a mere 110" by 120" It IS pretty, though, isn't it? Aaron and Leah are still friends, AND they just celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary. They had actually forgotten all about this quilt. Not me! It's the oldest thing on my UFO list! Since it's another humongous quilt (I've made a few of those!) I thought I would have it machine quilted by a professional. Well, my son and daughter-in-law are kind of sentimental and romantic. They want ME to quilt it. Awwww! Aren't they cute? Because it's way too big for me to machine quilt, that means hand-quilting. Of the 1,010 blocks I have 37 quilted so far. I just might be able to get it done in time for their 10th anniversary!
Learn how to make a nine-patch quilt from start to finish with this detailed beginner friendly tutorial.
Welcome to Stitchin Heaven’s Journeys BOM Month 4 – Winged Nine Patch. My helper for Month 4 is Diane Marvin, Certified Instructor for Studio 180 Design. This month you are going to lea…
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I'm going to take a break from the graduation, school, and family blogging and share my tutorial on how to piece a Jack's Chain quilt top. I finished this one recently and am really proud of it. It's a great, old-fashioned pattern. Yes, there are lots of inset seams, but I'm here to tell you they are not really that bad! I personally have never wanted to do the English paper piecing that is so popular with hexagon quilts right now... and you don't have to. This is all pieced on a machine, with intermediate sewing skills. My points are not always perfect matches, and I have found that I am a happier person if I don't worry about it too much. The overall effect is charming, and I can't wait to get this quilted and on my daughter's bed. So, I'd like to persuade you to attempt this little-known vintage pattern, sometimes also called Rosalia Flower Garden. I started thinking about this pattern when I was browsing through non-square block patterns in Maggie Malone's 1001 Patchwork Designs. There are three blocks listed that combine squares, hexagons, and equilateral triangles in this unique way (the others are Merry-Go-Round III and Wedding Tile). I like the way it creates a circular-looking pattern even though there are no curved lines to piece, and I thought it would be really cute in the 1930's reproduction fabrics I had been collecting. I also found the pattern on Quilter's Cache (which is a fabulous resource for all sorts of quilt patterns, by the way!) Although Quilter's Cache does give step-by-step directions and templates, I don't really like using templates and so I bought a Clearview Triangle ruler at a local quilt store. This makes it possible to cut both the equilateral triangles and the hexagons without templates. From that point, I did not really follow the Quilter's Cache piecing directions. Here's the picture of page 2 of the Quilter's Cache Jack's Chain pattern. I did use it as a guide for assembling the rows. Complicating matters still further, this project became a UFO for a few years (I think I started it in 2007) and I didn't get back to it until this year when I've been participating in Judy L.'s UFO project. I had divided the piecing of the top to be done over two months, and I groaned a little when the number for half of the piecing came up in April. But surprisingly, I found it was easy to make progress once I cleared some time to work steadily. I had already pieced a lot of the 9-patches and made enough blocks for a partial row of the finished top (which is 67x94"). I just needed to review and actually write down how I had cut and measured the blocks I had already done before! The Planning: I wanted to use '30's reproductions for the 9-patches, white for the hexagons, and various pastel and bright solids for the triangles. (Many of these solid fabrics are vintage... my grandfather was a partner in a business college in Ohio, and my grandmother had in her stash the 1/2 yard lengths of rainbow colored cotton that were used in the Nancy Taylor course, which was, I guess you would call it, a charm course for secretaries. So whenever I dig into my vintage solids, I imagine fashionable young women of the Mad Men era figuring out what colors were most flattering with their skin tones. I've read the books, and they are a hoot). The only significant yardage I required for this quilt was the white, and I think I used a little less than 3 yards of that. I have seen some examples of the Jack's Chain pattern online that use the same white background fabric for the hexagons, triangles, and the 4-patches of the 9-patch. If you want to do this, be sure to plan ahead and buy more of the white fabric! Here's the math that I should have done first, but didn't. I just plunged in. 9-Patches: The very first step is to make lots, and I mean lots, of 9-patches that finish to 3". You will probably choose to do this with 1.5" strips, and your best bet is to pace yourself. If you make a twin-sized quilt like mine, you will need 335 9-patches that finish to 3" (but with raw edge included, they are 3.5"). That's a lot of 9-patches. I wanted a scrappy variety of vintage-looking prints, so I tried to use different combinations of the fabrics I had. I would keep thinking that, surely, I had enough 9-patches. But then I'd calculate and realize that, no, I actually did not. Triangles: At some point, you will want to take a break from making 9-patches and cut some triangles (you will need 238) and hexagons (you will need 110, although some will be trimmed to half-hexagons later). That's only if you're making a quilt as big as mine; but you're on your own for calculating numbers if you change the size! For both these shapes, it's important to remember that the Clearview Triangle markings help you figure out the height of the triangle or hexagon, but you are going for a 3" finished measurement along the sides, not the height. For triangles, I cut strips that were 3 3/8" wide, and then I used the Clearview to subcut the triangle shapes. I used a mix of pastels, and a few brights (red, turquoise, green). The sides of the triangles are 3 7/8" in length. But because of the angle, they will finish up to 3" So, 238 equilateral triangles, cut from 3 3/8" strips. Hexagons: Cutting the white hexagons was more of a challenge. I think I made a paper template for the first one and measured it. What you do is to cut strips 5 5/8" wide. Then, you press them in half lengthwise. Then you place the 5 5/8" line of the Clearview Triangle on the folded edge, and the 2 3/4" line on the raw edge, and cut along the side angles. Discard the little white equilateral triangles or save them in your crumb bin: they are too small to work as the triangles you need for this pattern. You should be able to get 7 hexagons out of one strip; you need 110 total for a twin-size quilt. When you measure the raw edge of the hexagon, it will be just a smidge over 3 1/4", but again, because of the angles, all the edges will finish to 3". Arcs and Canoes: Now we're ready to join 9-patches and triangles into some of the elemental units that will later be formed into blocks. If you're like me, you'll want to do a few blocks just to see where the pattern's going. I call the two units above "arcs" and "canoes" because that's what they look like to me. An arc is 2 9-patches connected by a triangle. A canoe is 2 triangles connected by a 9-patch. My quilt uses 112 arcs and 63 canoes. Looking closely at how the triangles match up with the 9-patches, you can see that the 3" finished measurement is where you will need to start and stop stitching. I drew little dots so you can see. The triangle points extend a little beyond the straight edge of the 9-patch, but because of the angle, the lengths are just about exactly even along the future seamline, 1/4" in from the top edge. You will need to backtack to secure the stitches at beginning and end of each seam. I know, it's a bit of a drag if you're used to chain piecing and never stopping, using leaders and enders, etc. You kind of have to get into a frame of mind where you are not primarily concerned about speed piecing, and you will be surprised at how fast it actually does go. When you are piecing a unit and one seam meets another one, as in the arc unit, make sure to position the seam allowances for the first seam so they are not caught in the second seam. Wheels and Apple Cores: Now we are ready to begin constructing the blocks themselves. There are three basic types of blocks; above is what I call a "wheel." I made it by sewing two arc units onto opposite sides of a hexagon, and then adding two canoes on either side. If you have a stack of arcs and canoes ready to go, you can make a wheel block with 10 seams, each of them 3" long. My quilt needed 28 wheel blocks. The second type of block is what I call an "apple core." It consists of two arcs on opposite sides of a hexagon, just like the start of the wheel block. There are 21 apple core blocks in my quilt. By adding a single canoe unit to an apple core, you create an "end" block, needed for the end of each row in my quilt: I needed 7 of those. Here's a view of one seam of a hexagon joined to a 9-patch. You can see that where the triangle was longer than the 9-patch at the raw edge, the hexagon is a little shorter. But it is even at the 1/4" seam line, which is where it counts. Start and stop stitching at the point where the 1/4" seamlines cross. I tend to eyeball it and it usually works. And you do need to clip the threads close to the fabric after stitching. Again, wherever you have multiple seams meeting at that 1/4" point, make sure not to stitch over the seam allowances. Stitch back and forth a few times at the beginning and end of each seam. I think it worked best if I avoided pressing the seams until after I had joined an entire row or even multiple rows of the quilt. Rows: For my quilt, I joined 4 wheels, 3 apple cores, and 1 end block to make a row that was 8 hexagons long. That's the width of the quilt. In addition, you will eventually need to piece the connector or "chain" rows. In the above photo there are two regular rows and one connector row in between them. My chain connector rows consisted of 8 9-patches alternating with 9 hexagons. The two hexagons on either end will eventually be trimmed to half-hexagons. And yes, when the quilt is ready for binding, I will be binding a very scallop-y, raggedy edge. I will almost certainly need to use binding cut on the bias, not straight of grain. It's similar to the technique used to bind a Double Wedding Ring quilt. The alternative would be to cut with a rotary cutter to make a straight edge, and I don't think I would have the heart to do that! Here's a shot of how I didn't work: I never used pins. But you could certainly do so if you were concerned about hitting the right 1/4" intersection point, or keeping the seam allowances out of the way of the needle. Remember that Jack's Chain has a different rhythm than most modern quilts: there's a lot of stop-and-start seaming, but the seams are short and regular, and you will very quickly get used to how the quilt goes together. My final quilt had 7 regular rows and 6 chain connector rows, and is 67"x94" or twin size. I didn't calculate everything out in advance, and I have enough extra blocks to make a baby quilt, which I'm working on now. I did find that one very thorough pressing with steam at the end of all the set-in seaming was good: pressing before all the seams were joined meant I was more likely to have trouble with a seam allowance getting caught in the stitching. If you find this tutorial helpful, please drop me a line or even send a photo of yours. I'd love to see this pattern become more popular!
I love when something I've been working on is finally ready for the big reveal!! I'm so, so pleased to announce the introduction of my newest Tokens of the Past pattern, called Nine Patch Reverie!! I'm lovin' me a Nine Patch block, and I've been thinking about this pattern for awhile. While I love a simple, traditional Nine Patch quilt, there's a lot of plain, classic patterns out there, and you certainly don't need another. I set out to design three quilts, all using Nine Patch blocks, all different from one another, and different from what's already been done. I hope you like them!! One important thing you need to know is there are larger, alternate sizes for each quilt included in the pattern. If you're a regular reader of my blog, you know I love tiny, little blocks. Aborable little blocks. Downright irresistible little blocks.....to me, that is. No so for everyone, and I totally get that, so I did the math to include at least one larger size quilt for each of the three in this pattern. Read on.... Four Around Nine in the Tokens: Nine Patch Reverie pattern by Pam Buda ~ Heartspun Quilts First up is Four Around Nine. Simple Nines surrounded by simple Four Patches. The Nine Patches are front and center, framed by a lovely red print border. The size of the finished block in this, the smallest one, is 4 inches, with the quilt measuring 22" x 26". The larger, alternate size has a finished block of 6 inches, with the quilt measuring 34" x 40". Starry, Starry Nines in the Tokens of the Past: Nine Patch Reverie pattern by Pam Buda ~ Heartspun Quilts Second is Starry, Starry Nines. I am madly in love with this quilt. Double Nine patch blocks create this fun center "grid" where Sawtooth Stars with more Nine Patches float, surrounded by a fun to piece sawtooth border. Scrappy, too!! Love, love. The size of the finished block in this one is 4 1/2 (which means those Nine Patches are 1 1/2), with the quilt measuring 23" x 29". Now, because of that Sawtooth border....the math just didn't work for any other size except to double the size of the blocks, which of course doubled the size of the quilt. So, the next largest size has blocks finishing to 9 inches, with the quilt measuring 51" x 64". A yummy lap/throw size. Starry, Starry Nines Here you can see them both together. Isn't it fun to see?!! They were a whole lotta fun to piece. Nines In Blue from the Tokens of the Past: Nine Patch Reverie pattern by Pam Buda ~ Heartspun Quilts Lastly, I give you Nines In Blue. This collection of different Nine Patches play with the light and blue fabric to make this cutie pahtooty little quilt! I had some fun with alternates for this quilt, and I'll show you what I mean in a moment. The size of the finished block, for this the smallest quilt, is 1 1/2 inches, with the quilt measuring 18" x 20". Soooo little, and sooo cute! Here's a photo of just what I mean about playing with this design. The quilt at the right is the same Nines In Blue quilt, double the size, and with the light fabric replacing the blue background, and I changed the squares to all scrappy darks. Kinda fun...what do you think?? The quilt to the right is the next larger size, with finished blocks measuring 3 inches, and the quilt measuring 34 1/2" x 39". There is yet another, largest size for Nines In Blue with a block size of 4 1/2, with the quilt measuring 23" x 29". They're all versatile, fun, and easy. All have our favorite Nine Patch block. I hope they pique your interest! Click here to order the Tokens of the Past: Nine Patch Reverie pattern today! I'm off to quilt market in Minneapolis for the week. If you order a pattern, it will ship while I'm gone. I won't be posting on my blog again until I get back home, but I will try to post regularly to Instagram and Facebook, so I invite you to follow me there. Until then, I hope you find some time to enjoy yourself and sew awhile.
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Next project started is this Omigosh! quilt designed by Susan H Garman. I'm using all fabrics from my stash so I rummaged around and found some fun things. This roll of Jelly Bean Batiks by Laundry Basket Quilts is from 2014 and the 5 yards of white may be older than that! Good thing fabric doesn't have a shelf life!! One inch strips sewn together to make tiny 4 patch squares. This is just some of the plethora of units I needed to make the 4 patches. These baskets contain pieces to make the tiny 9 patches. I made loads of these tiny 9 patches while on vacation. These finish at 1 1/2"! I made some into the double 9 patch blocks to see what it would look like. To finish the 4 patch blocks there must be extra white all around it. I figured out a way to cut the excess "wing tips" off BEFORE sewing it to the 4 patch. The reason for that is so I could easily chain piece the units. This is a sneak peek of what my finished blocks will look like. These blocks are 4 1/2" finished. These are the 4 patch units for the Shoo Fly blocks. ALL of these need to be trimmed to 2" square. I've got plenty left to do but my goal is to finish this quilt by early November.
Oh this is so hard for me. Here it is....my last customer quilt. Becky's Urban Nine Patch was a gem to quilt up! I love everything about this quilt....the design...the colors...the layout. Like I said, this is my last customer quilt. I've got so many emotions going through me right now. Check out the feathers for this quilt! They worked perfectly and even if you may not be into feathers....you can't tell me they don't look fantastic on this quilt! I went back and forth as to what design to do for the open white area in Becky's quilt and after a good night sleep, settled on my feather/swirl all over design. I didn't feel it needed more that that because the scalloped border is fantastic enough!! This quilt took me about 14 hours to quilt up. A lot of stitching in the ditch but very worth it! I love how the little white square looks like an art deco tile. I may just ask Becky for this one back for Market someday. It's so beautiful! Becky's piecing was phenomenal! ...and just in case you were wondering, my quilting posts will not end here. I've got plenty of my own creations to quilt up! My Professional Lonarm Quilting Business has been an amazing experience, some good and some not so good. I've had lot's and lot's of experiences good and bad that have happened along the way. I've met some amazing quilters and have developed priceless friendships. They've taught me so much and I'm so grateful for them. I love how longarm quilting has pushed me to be creative beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I love what's to come and have been truly blessed with my career path. I hope that I can in some way or another use my longarm quilting skills to teach and inspire others somehow, someday and probably at another time. Okay...so I guess this is it! Look out for "Curves Ahead"!! ~Jenny~
This cheerful quilt features an unexpected mix of blocks: Nine Patch and Square-in-a-Square.
from the book "Scrap Happy: Quick-Pieced Scrap Quilts"
How come nobody makes purple quilts anymore? All these vintage quilts are bout 1870-1900 It's not a lack of purple period prints. Above a few leaning to purple from my Old Cambridge Pike collection for Moda. This one's older, made by Nancy Graft Jones who died in 1863 From Collector with a Needle Yellow is purple's complement so the perfect accent. From the Packwood House collection Or a yellowish brown if true yellow is too much. See more about vintage purple fabrics here: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2015/03/stars-in-time-warp-11-purple.html
Eunice spent eighteen months piecing her Mrs Billings quilt by machine. These really are a labour of love which I would never have the patience to even start never mind finish. It must be a great sense of achievement to see it finished though. This is the second Mrs Billings that I have quilted, there is so much piecing that quilting design choices are limited and cost prohibitive for my clients too. So simple quilting although every piece is quilted somehow. Mrs Billings is the pattern name available from Somerset Patchwork Off white thread and customer supplied wadding, 92" x 92" As with many of this type of quilt, both piecer and quilter spent time finding solutions to give a good result for the borders, but a pleasing result was accomplished on both sides.... As usual lots of photos....
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Blogless Kathy, a nurse who quilts in California, sent me a link to this terrific pattern, "Second Hand Clothes," by Bonnie Blue Q...
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting The Country Loft in La Mesa, CA. Oh, yes...what a hardship for this Chicago girl to spend time in the San Diego area in January! Friday, Saturday and Sunday I taught workshops and spent the day with wonderful quilters!! Many attending have been Facebook friends! Always fun to meet them in person! And much to my surprise and delight, designers Cheri Payne (Quilts by Cheri) and Kathy Cardiff (The Cottage at Cardiff Farms) attended Sunday's class. Lucky me because I don't get to see them very often. I so look forward to giving workshops because I maintain there is just no better way to spend a day than with quilters!! Everyone was so friendly, and happy to be sewing. Shop owner, Sharon Smith, had the workshop in the banquet room of a nearby local Italian restaurant. As you can see, the room was bright and sunny....and the food...oh...the food was wonderful!!! The only thing that would have made it any better was if I were sewing, too!! You'll find no complaints from me as I had the best time!! Every chance we had, we went across the street to shop at The Country Loft. Let me show you why!! If you love Civil War repros, wool, antiques, folk art and country decorating, you simply must visit The Country Loft!! Didn't I tell you there are wonderful things in every nook and cranny? Luscious wools and Valdani threads... ...beautiful cottons and inspiration everywhere!! Don't they have great ideas for displaying quilts?!! Like this display of all five of the Prairie Women's Sewing Circle Journey quilts! WOW!! A Prairie Gathering Quilt of the Quarter I absolutely loved seeing my Prairie Gathering Quilt of the Quarter displayed on a bed in the shop! So cute with the ticking pillows and bed skirt. Would love to take home some of the antique furniture, too!! Sharon and all the very creative shop girls pay attention to even the smallest things, making them so cute and adding inspiration everywhere!! And...if all that didn't tempt you, they have more antiques in the little cottage in the back yard. Sigh....it's all so much fun, it was very hard to leave!! My heartfelt thanks to Sharon Smith for asking me to visit her wonderful shop. To all the shop girls who made delicious treats Friday night, and who work so hard with Sharon to make a beautiful and inspiring place for all of us to enjoy, and feed our creative souls. And, last but certainly not least...to all of the wonderful ladies who attended the three workshop events....I thoroughly enjoyed meeting each and every one of you. Your warm welcome will get me thru the rest of my Chicago winter!!
I bought some coloured pencils and nice paper recently and have been busy scribbling some potential quilt ideas. When I shared a few to my instagram stories, this was one of the favourites- so here is a tutorial so you can make one too!
I'm sorry I removed the pictures of the front of this quilt. To my big surprise it is going to be published in Quiltmania. As soon as the issue is available I wil repost this quilt :-) Here is a de
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Got up at 4:15 this morning in order to watch the Royal Wedding coverage which started at 4:30. What better handwork to do while watching the Royal Wedding than some English Paper Piecing? Here is my Jack'[s Chain top so far, just needing the final border rows. I pieced the four corner blocks this morning and actually got one of the corners sewn on. They are kind of odd shaped at this point and was a puzzle to add to the corner. Corner block sewn on So the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now married, and I take my quilt to the guest room to admire my work of the morning. Oooooops, I had sewn the corner to the side, lol, completely missing the corner. Plus I already pulled out the papers. Oh well, it can be fixed, but daggum (been watching too much Tomater Tales with my grandson) I don't like ripping out EPP! To make sure this does not happen again, and with me it very well could. I put a clip on each of the corners. And while I am sharing my goofs, here is Block 1 of a new quilt I am working on. The block is actually a green print, but the photo shows up here as yellow for some odd reason. I tried to edit and make it green, but then the back ground turned a green as well. Anyway this block went together so well, that I made the mistake of telling my friends how forgiving this block is as it is not so noticeable when the points don't exactly line up. JINX! Here is block #2 - my grey block. Forget what I said about goofs not showing up....having to eat my words and rip my stitches on this one. Thanks for stopping by, Teresa
Before finishing this modern nine patch quilt using Banyan Batiks by Northcott, we're doing more cutting and rotating blocks again! See how we did it. Free quilt pattern - part 2
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT KAREN H PATTERNS Several of my patterns are FREE! Please do not sell or reproduce my Faeries and Fibres Patterns without my written permission. However you are more than welcome to post a link to my blog so that others can access them. I put a great deal of time and energy into my free quilt patterns. I hope you will use my pattern to make a quilt. If you do I would love to see the finished quilt. Thank you and happy sewing! Karen H 81 The Giant Monstrosity by Karen H Available on Craftsy for $10 US Cherry Blossom Quilt Pattern by Karen H Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US Baskets and Nine Patches Quilt Pattern by Karen H Pattern will be available on Craftsy - $5 US Orange Crush Quilt Pattern by Karen H Available on Craftsy - FREE PATTERN Quilting Bees Mini Quilt Pattern by Karen H Pattern available on Craftsy for $5.00 US Finishes at 12 1/2" square Value Proposition Quilt Pattern by Karen H This 60 page booklet covers everything from fabric selection, rapid fire cutting techniques, basting, sewing and assembly. Included is a master template for the paper hexagons. Available on Craftsy - $10 US Ottoman Pincushion Available on Craftsy - $3.00 US Hexagon Flower Pincushion Pattern by Karen H Available on Craftsy - $3.00 US Hexagon Pincushion Pattern by Karen H Available on Crafsty - FREE PATTERN Easier Than Pie & Beyond - Book 1 Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US Easier Than Pie & Beyond - Book 2 Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US Easier Than Pie & Beyond - Book 3 Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US Easier Than Pie & Beyond - Book 4 Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US Easier Than Pie & Beyond - Book 5 Available on Craftsy - $5.00 US
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This Nine Patch Patchwork Quilt Pattern is the best beginner quilt pattern to start off your quilting adventures! Check out my first quilt and learn how to make one too!
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Cette semaine, j'ai eu la possibilité d'aller admirer la célèbre exposition des Quilts de légende à Brouage . Je n'y étais jamais allée avant, mais ce qui est sûr, c'est que je ne raterai pas la prochaine... Pour résumer, c'était mieux que bien : des...
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Churn dash, 2015 Churn dash, detail, block finishes 9 inches Shoofly, 2016 Shoofly, block finishes 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches Framed Nine-patch, 2016 Framed Nine-patch detail, block finishes 7 1/2 inches I group these three early in the series quilts as Classic blocks. Churn dash was the second and Shoofly the third. Framed Nine-patch was a few later. Shoofly is not made in the traditional way, rather with a float method using flipped corners.
I had almost forgotten about this cute blanket that I came up with for Stylecraft a few years ago. I was thinking about nine patch quilts at the time and lovely 30's style feed-sack fabrics that are
I finished my quilt this evening! So excited about this one! I love how it turned out and I finished just in time to enter it in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I really kept consistent with the quilting on this, not my original plan. I'm really happy with the decision I made, I like how the quilting ties all the blocks together. The border design was a new one for me. I always like to try something new on my own quilts. It sort of reminds me of a knitted sweater. I wanted to do something fun for the binding and love the green and white stripe. My new favorite quilt...for now. Thanks for taking a peek and thanks Amy for putting this together! ~Jenny~