Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt

After a fairly simple first quilt, I decided to go bigger and slightly more complicated for my second. I chose the disappearing nine patch design as explained at Cluck, Cluck, Sew. To pick fabrics, I started with a grey, yellow, red, and aqua print from the Chloe’s Closet Hello Betty collection and built from there using what was available at my local quilt store. It was hard to choose ten fabrics (nine patches plus binding) that went well together, but I love what I ended up with.

After lots of cutting and sewing, I ended up with 16 big blocks, that I then had to cut into 64 smaller blocks and sew again!

I arranged 63 blocks into a 9×7 grid for a quilt that’s about 60″ by 45″. It took me a while to lay out the design so that none of the same fabrics touched!

Next steps — sewing all the blocks together, basting, and quilting!

Posted in Quilting ♥ 07.26.2010 at 5:13 pm ♥  Leave a comment

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