Disappearing 9 Patch

I really like this block and I thought it would work well with the hearts that my sewing group gave me.

So this has been my textile effort over the last few days. There are 10 of these blocks.


I was given 9 hearts and I need 10 to make the quilt work. Sheila, who organised the heart presentation, did not have any more of the background fabric, but she found another than everyone agreed was colour perfect, if a bit heavier than the originals.

So what am I going to do for the 10th block? I will try to digitise everyone's name within a heart shape. If that doesn't work - I am definitely not a master digitiser - I will do the same thing with fabric pens. Watch this space!

Disappearing Nine Patch

As I wrote a few days ago I had to have a go at this. It is really easy. You start with a nine patch block - either a scrappy one like mine or a more co-ordinated one.



The finished block needs to be a reasonable size (probably at least 10.5 inches) or it gets too fiddly. You cut the block in half horizontally and vertically so you have 4 pieces.


Then you rearrange this four patch in another way - there are several different ways you can do it.

Here is my finished quilt. I plan to give this away, along with others that my friendship group intends to make.