Wonky Patchwork: Nine Patch. In searching the blog world for November’s wonky block tutorial, I discovered the Nine Patch. This classic block in its most basic form. Shop for nine patch quilt on Etsy, the place to express your creativity through the buying and selling of handmade and vintage goods. Crazy about quilting - allsorts. Finally! After years of thinking about trying my hand at making a quilt, I have completed all of the blocks for my very first one! I took a class last week with my Bernina sewing posse, and learned how to make a ! I snapped pics along the way so you can try it, too. First, here is one of the finished blocks: This quilt uses 3. In searching the blog world for November's wonky block tutorial, I discovered the Nine Patch. This classic block in its most basic form consists of nine equal squares. Wonky Nine Patch When I first started to quilt, my dream was to be able to machine quilt. There was a day when machine quilting was frowned at. Wonky Nine Patch QuiltsI chose 1. 2 each of red yellow and blue 1. Once you've chosen your fabrics, wash or rinse, dry them, then give a liberal spraying of starch and iron them so they're nice and stiff. Using a rotary cutter, cut them into 3. Divide into four stacks of 9 squares with the colors arranged red yellow blue red yellow blue, etc. Working your way down the stack, sew each pair together in the same way, making sure to keep them in a chain, until you finish the last one in the stack. Then open them out one by one, clipping the thread between them as you re- stack them in the same order. Align the edges again and make another angled cut like so: This time take the top TWO pieces from the narrow stack and move them to the bottom: Same as before, put the right sides together of the top pieces and sew along that edge, then open out and put back in the same order. Now press your seams to the middle, making sure you don't change the order or orientation of any of the blocks. Align your blocks and make a cut like this: Take the top THREE pieces from the narrow stack and move them to the bottom of the stack, and sew pieces together as before. Press seams to the middle. Make sure to keep each stack together. When you arrange the blocks on the quilt you will need to have them still in their original groupings. Now do the other three stacks the same way, then trim all of the blocks down to a uniform square size. But here are the pattern combos for my other three sets of blocks: Its probably a good thing that I'm doing this particular quilt for my first try. And these colors are really making me very happy! I am still waffling on what color to choose for the sashing and border, but I'll settle on something eventually. Have a great weekend folks! Simplicity 1390 Sewing Pattern Wonky Nine Patch Quilt Lap Quilt Pillow Sham. Quilt In A Day Ruler 2.5' Strip Wonky Ruler. This Pin was discovered by Stephanie Buchanon. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. We're off to get Mexican food!
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