Whilst we were browsing the store the shop keeper was showing another customer how to sew a quilt with 3x3 squares which you then slice into quarters. You then rotate 2 of the quarters and join it back up.
As i didnt really know what i was doing i cut some paper squares and did a trial run.
I started with this ...
Then I had to decide how the next block was going to go. Black, white, black again, or swap to white, black, white? I'm sure there is a 'proper' way, but I was only interested in doing what pleased my eye. Out came the scraps of paper again. This?...
Or this?...
I decided I liked the first one best and sewed my next block up with reverse colours, but now looking at them again I think I have made a mistake. I might need to discard that block and do up another one the other way.
What do you think?
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They look great! (The block is called a disappearing 9-patch, by the way, or D9P). There's no right or wrong way to make them - however you like it is how you should do it! I happen to love the alternating version you've done using both types of blocks; it will create a good diagonal pattern across your quilt top.
ReplyDeleteThe Giant quilt that is usually on my bed is a D9P design... (not the new MonSwoom quilted by emma above, but the other one I made a few years ago). Yours looks great... will make a great quilt for a newborn baby- with the whole newborn contrast thingie going on.
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