Simple Framed Nine Patches

The last one. My last gasp.

The few odds and ends I had leftover went into my scraps to be cut and trimmed up - though I did incorporate the largest pieces into the backing of this one.

I was not able to find enough of what was leftover to make anything except maybe part of crumb blocks. At this point, I decided to call a halt. No more. Not necessary. I used my $20 worth of geometrics and other fabrics to create 16 quilts. Well, obviously the geometrics alone didn’t do that, but like the story of Stone Soup, they were the starting point for each of these quilts.

This little quilt is 55”x 64”.

With this last one, I was stumped as to what color to use. I decided that I was a little light on using “green” in this series. The eighth quilt, which was Simple Framed Nine Patches on Point was shown using a soft sage green. But other than that, I didn’t use green. That’s really because I lack a lot of solid green in my solids bookcase!

But I did pull out two pieces of lime green. One I liked a tad bit better than the other. This was it. I decided to use it - and so it worked. This was all the green I could put on the quilt though because I used it all.

I think I ended up with about a couple of strips of fabric that were about 2”x6” plus some straightening strips. That’s it. I had hoped to have enough to put a colorful skinny strip in as a border - similar to what I did with the Simple Shadowed Basic Blocks. However, there wasn’t enough. At that point, I didn’t want to introduce an “almost the same” lime green into the top. So I left it out altogether. That was too bad as I liked the drawing with it in (in the Electric Quilt program). However, it isn’t the first time I’ve had to satisfy myself with something other than what I originally wanted because of my lack of a certain fabric. Usually it brings along a design change.

The backing green is actually the shade of green that I prefer over this lime. I will admit, however, as the quilt was hanging outside today, however, the “lime” is beginning to “grow” on me. If you are a lime green lover, please don’t be upset with me. It’s just not one of those colors that I’ve preferred. However…as I’ve mentioned before, since I’ve started quilting, I’ve learned to live with and even enjoy pretty much all colors.

Here’s a close up of the center. All I did for the quilting was straight line quilt it. I quilted twice in the sashing strips, using the sides of the strips as a guide and then down the middle of the block. It was very simple quilting. I just felt like doing all of these in very simple styles.

Here it this quilt, teasing us a bit.

Maybe it is just our spring, but we’ve had breezes every day - almost all the time. When I try to get these pictures, I have to stand there, waiting for the wind to kind of let the quilt fall straight so I can hopefully get the photo at exactly the right fraction of a second when the quilt is hanging as straight as possible.

Then there are times that I just give up and take some of the quilt as the wind whips it around. As I’ve mentioned before, as well, this is especially a problem with these smaller quilts. The heavier ones tend to, by virtue of the weight of the quilt itself, to hang down better. They don’t move as much in the wind and they just hang on the line better in general. I used poly batting on all of these, but possibly if I had used cotton, they might have been heavier and thus hung better.

As usual - the quilt roll -

I did update the pictures on the Geometrics page and put the pattern on the free patterns page. it is very similar to the basic Simple Framed Squares pattern - just that these are 9 patches so the squares are a bit larger than that one.

I trust you have enjoyed this little Geometrics Series. It’s been a bit varied - but not terribly. I worked with 4.5”, 2.5”, 2” and 1.5” strips since that is how I trimmed down all those leftover pieces I got from that auction. Remember…they were scraps from someone’s business who makes pillows and other home dec goods.

I’m glad it’s a short series- as I am ready to move back to my other quilts - ready to get my teeth into scraps again - colorful scraps!

I’m glad I did this series, though, as it has helped me overcome my own personal “fear” of these geometric - design fabrics. They can be very impressive - now I’ve seen that first-hand.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this! Stay safe and well!

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