You are going to have the cutest sampler quilt at the end of this year. Your color palette is go cool.
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Working on a Disappearing 9 Patch baby quilt for my cousinās son. The fabric has adorable little Vikings!
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I look forward to seeing how it looks once itās cut and pieced!
I am currently finishing up a project that Iām no longer interested in working on right now. I really want to work on my mystery quilt, but I started a project a few weeks ago and I donāt want to just add it to the unfinished pile, so Iāll finish it up, then be free to work on my mystery quilt!
In February the mystery quilt pattern was revealed! I canāt wait to piece the last blocks and start putting it together (well, actually I suppose I can wait, since thatās exactly what Iām doing, lol).
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Thanks for the visuals. I might be able to do this!
Parent blocks were pieced, then sliced and diced into the daughter blocks. Currently planning on this as the layout, with a narrow inner border of gold, and a wider outer border of the medium blue. Probably going to use the gold as the binding too.
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Iāve always thought disappearing nine patches were neat. This is working up so quick!
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I like the idea of the gold binding, it contrasts so well with the blue!
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This is fun! I love the disappearing 9 for quick fun quilts. It looks like you spent lots of time piecing little bits, but it really speeds up the piecing. The colors are perfect
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I also only iron when I sew!
@marionberries I love the colors you chose for your BOM. Having different designs sure is pleasing to the eye! All your blocks look so attractive hung up together like that!
Iām having fun watching you work on your house block! Am I spying embroidery? And tumbling cats in the window fabric! I think itās really cool that your house is getting a solar panel. Nice!
@mistressjennie I actually had to look up what a Disappearing 9 Patch quilt was and now I know! What fun fabrics you chose! Can you explain to me what a parent and daughter block is?
@AudiobookLover You can do it so you can work on all the more fun things! I know what you mean about forcing yourself to do what you donāt to (Operation Use Up Yarn anyone?) but my back/shoulder still is bothering me (although possibly trying to be better?) so I am continuing to rest it.
I want to see some more updates on your Mystery Quilt!
I agree that a gold binding on the Disappearing 9 Patch Quilt would look amazing!
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I WANT/NEED THAT FABRIC!!!
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Sure! You make a traditional 9 patch block, which is the āparentā. Then you slice it into quarters, which is the ādaughterā. Hereās a good post on the pattern from The Spruce Crafts:
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Such a versatile patternā¦I have a little cheat sheet on all the ways you can cut them to make different patternsā¦
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Hereās my use of the disappearing nine patch!
I have another quilt top in progress using this same version of the 9 patch, but with Christmas fabrics rather than I-spy.
Somebody give me a kick in the butt, I need to get to work so that I can have completed quilts instead of WIPs! Actually, I have the push, I just need the speed (and for the housework to pause when Iām quilting instead of expanding exponentially!).
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That is really cute!
I love the red squares in both!
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I love this one! I was having a hard time finding the right fabric for my border, but this quilt inspired me to go with a double border, which solved my problem!
That is beautiful! But no, that one isnāt a Disappearing 9 Patch. Itās a regular 9 Patch with pieced corner units. (The block seems to be called Homeward Bound.) The defining characteristic of a Disappearing 9 Patch is that you slice up the 9 patch blocks, and rearrange them. In hers, she doesnāt slice them up.
Meanwhile, hereās a D9P that I made for @Edel early in the pandemic, when we decided to swap quilt tops made from what we had on hand. I had a charm pack of reds and creams that came as a free gift with a quilt kit I ordered from Craftsy, and I filled it out a bit more with some extra red and cream scraps. I even had enough solid red to send her as binding.
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Hereās an interesting alternative D9P, where you cut off the outside edge of the 9 Patch blocks, but leave the center whole.
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