Scrappy Nine Patch Day Continued

My friends and I got together on Friday to make our scrappy nine patch blocks.  We had a lovely day, lots of craic and gorgeous food.  There were five of us - Ann, Mary, Liz, Hazel and myself.  We each brought 250 squares measuring 2 1/2 inches and we each gave away four bags of fifty squares.

I mentioned the squares that I had cut in a previous post Scrappy Nine Patch Day.  We arrived at Mary's house at 10am and sewed until lunchtime.



Mary looking very industrious

Mary's blocks

Ann gave everyone brown bags for all our squares.  These were mixed together and picked out at random and sewn to make our nine patch blocks.

Ann chain piecing

Ann's blocks

  

Hazel pressing her blocks

 



Hazel's blocks

Liz concentrating on her seams

Liz's blocks

My chain piecing

My nine patch blocks

Now this isn't as easy to do as you may think.  I love scrappy quilts but I generally would use only fabrics and colours that I have chosen for that particular project.  So in a way it was quite liberating. 

We sewed until late afternoon.  Liz brought two scrappy quilts with her to show us how pretty the scrappy blocks can look when paired with the right link fabrics.

Scrappy Four Patches

Scrappy Four Patches Again

Our next task now is to figure out how we want to incorporate our blocks into a quilt and then have another get together to show each other what we made.  I'll keep you informed when that happens.

My scrappy nine patches

The more I look at my nine patches the more they seem to be growing on me.  Well I must go now as it's getting late.

Bye for now.
Sandra

Scrappy Nine Patch Day

One of my friends recently came up with the great idea of five of us getting together on a Saturday to have a sewing day. .

The aim would be to make scrappy nine patch quilts.  Each of us would bring along five little bags with fifty  2 1/2" squares in each bag.  Here are mine.

We each exchange four of our bags so that we are left with 250 squares of all sorts of different fabrics.  I wonder what new fabric I will get in the exchange?

Then we sew scrappy nine patches without looking at the fabric in the bag when choosing our squares.  At the end, we all pick our own background fabric and put our quilts together in whatever layout we wish. 

I think this will be a lovely way to spend a Saturday with friends.  Now we just have to work out which Saturday suits us all.

I'll keep you posted and show you the nine patches when I complete them. 

Must go now, talk later.
Sandra