Thursday, March 5, 2015

"Nine-Patch with an Attitude"

In my last post I told you that I have made March, Machine Quilting Month, and that I had four projects that I want done by the end of the month.  I can now show you the first project that I have completed and can tick off the list.

I  called it  "Nine-Patches with an Attitude"  I love nine-patches, what quilter doesn't.  I have made a ton of them over the years.  In January, my lovely little guild, the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild, had a member swap of 5" squares of dots and stripes.  I sorted through the pile of 56 squares that I received and arranged them into colour families.  Then I made nine-patch blocks with each one having a dark grey 5" square in the centre.  Then I used the disappearing nine-patch method and sliced them up and then sewed them all back together into a pleasing arrangement.  I used the orangey/pinkey and the bluey/greeney ones to make my centre (still have a few blocks left over for another project) and then added a light grey around that.  I machine quilted with a straight-line jiggity jaggity stitch of my own making, with an orangey/pinkey Sulky variegated thread opposite the orangey/pinkey quadrant  and then used a blue/yellow/green Sulky variegated thread opposite the bluey/greeney blocks.  I switched up the direction of the quilting as well.  What a beautiful texture it made.  For the binding (that's a whole other post coming soon)  I used Kona Coal and then when sewing it down to the front I used the same thread to correspond with the quilting.  First time I ever did that.  Love it and it was such fun for me to make.




On the back, I used an Ikea print that my Quilty Sister brought me from Qatar.



Hope you had time to do something quilty today.




17 comments:

  1. Before I read down your post, I recognized the backing fabric from Ikea. I have a similar piece.
    Your quilt is nice & colourful! The gray works well with it.
    Nice job!

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  2. Oh Linda, I love it, especially the quilting. Love that the direction changes...unique little twist that adds so much! Fun way to use up some of our charms!

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  3. That looks fantastic and I LOVE the backing with it.

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  4. I like how you have quilted this quilt. What size does it measure

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  5. Oh, my goodness, Linda! So gorgeous! You stitched yourself to the moon an back in no time at all.

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  6. Great finish Linda and I love the quilting. xx

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  7. Wow Linda , great finish and you would never guess this was once a nine patch , great job!!

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  8. I've never done a disappearing nine patch... now I have another project I want to make! Looks great!

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  9. This is gorgeous! Love how you used the dots and stripes together with the grey, it really blends together wonderfully. You have such a good eye. :)

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  10. What a great quilt! Your quilting is perfect for it!

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  11. I like! And I so wish I had an Ikea nearby. I'm jealous of all the fun fabric I see that everyone gets there.

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  12. Love your D9P quilt! I made one of those for my niece for her off-to-college quilt and it turned out so cute. Now you've got me thinking about using up some of my children's prints and making some of these for our charity drive at guild!!!

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  13. That's a lot of quilting. Great backing fabric and I see your selvage snowman is featured on the Selvage Quilter blog.

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  14. I really like how you did the blocks, and adding the gray to each one pulls them all together. Awesome quilting!!

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  15. isn't that backing fabric wonderful??? i used it for a backing of a quilt for my niece... i would love to get more of it from ikea...
    love your blog..
    xo
    eva
    b.c.

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