I busted out my pile of nine-patches, eager to experiment with disappearing nine-patch settings. I was originally going to work with a combo of all-pink and all-black blocks, but I can't find them :( I did find my very first set of nine-patches though. They're obviously made by a sewer unfamiliar with a consistent 1/4" seam. I think at the time, I was more impressed that I could almost match all of my intersections (ignoring the odd combos of fabrics, of course.) They're supposed to be 6" finished blocks--um, yeah. Not quite.
First step was introducing my 6" square ruler to my pile of patches. Instead of stressing over their size, I just decided to trim them all down to exactly 6" square, rather than their current 6.25"-7" (?!?) size.
After squaring up 4 of the blocks, I sliced them in half on the vertical and horizontal. Then came the fun part!
left block: small corners on outside corners--sort of like a puss-in-the-corner block
right block: small corners all in the middle, forming a 4-patch/2 log rail fence/solid block combo
left block: a pinwheel in the center
right block: all pieces with small corner in upper left side-like a off center log cabin with cornerstones?
this is with 4 full blocks, 16 cut pieces--alternating where the small corner is located
These are a few of the "doodles"--I'm not sure if I'm going to use one of these layouts or keep fiddling. I like the scrappy puss-in-the-corner one, but I have another set of orphan blocks to mess with that are puss-in-the-corners, I'm not sure if I want to keep repeating that block. Not that it would be an issue--there's plenty of quilters who use a block they're comfortable with multiple times :) I know I can say that this will be a predominantly red top--lots of burgundy and dark red prints mixed with the miscellaneous prints. These are from the days when I would grab all of the cotton remnants from the JoAnn's markdown bin--I was the cashier's nightmare. I still do that every once in a while with fleece and flannels when they're on sale--probably why I have full totes of each!
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