Purple Leftovers

A small pile of leftover 9 patches that have been framed. I still have about 5 left!

This was another pile of 9 patches I found in my sewing room all pinned together not that long ago. They were leftovers from this quilt that I made for a lady who asked me for one after she gave me shirts.

Another day. Another story.

This quilt I made for a lady who asked me for a quilt - after giving me shirts. Once I made this quilt, I told her I didn’t need any more shirts - as I don’t care to receive gifts with strings attached. I hardly felt like it was a fair trade since giving me shirts (that have been gifted) takes very little effort while making a quilt takes a lot of time at least some money.

Anyway, I had the 9 patches made - and as usual, I had made too many. I kept all the leftover 9 patches pinned together, wanting to make something with them.

These are some of the things that were recently rediscovered after my husband put in some extra lighting in my sewing room and I had to go through pretty much everything in there in order to try to make room and order out of the chaos.

 

I kept looking at them, but unsure what to do with them. I didn’t feel like making a lot more of them (too many other things I’m trying to do - not in that mood).

So, I decided to turn them on point after framing them, adding those colored outer points, sashing them and calling it good.

 

I made this one as part of the geometrics group of quilts.

I had been checking out this quilt in my free patterns (it’s a good idea to scour that page once in a while) and I really did like this quilt from my Geometrics quilt patterns. I decided to sort of combine the two.

I liked the idea of using that combination of colors for the outer part of the blocks, so I did the same with the solids I had in my possession. I took a look at the fabrics that I had in my blocks and decided to stick with those nice cool colors - purple, blues and greens (and hot pink). I figured it should look nice.

 

I made the blocks with the half square triangle on the shadow as it was recommended by one of you! It ended up being a big block! 15”

As such, I didn’t even use up all of the blocks I had.

I did the “stitch and flip” method - also called the Snowball Method.

 

Deciding on the layout took a bit of time.

I had 4 different blues, 2 greens and 2 purples as the background colors. All solids. Throwing in those hot pink borders to the 9 patches kind of made it hard to lay out ‘evenly’. I did the best I could. Random - sorta.

Here’s the top.

It’s pretty big. 91”x105”. In the end, the quilt top looks pretty cool.

The blocks end up being large - 15” finished! So this whole queen sized quilt only takes 30 blocks!

I like these colors together. I guess they are just colors that speak to me!

The 1.5” cut strings that I put around the 9 patches were pulled from my already cut up strips.

I am very pleased with how this one turned out - at least as a top. I hope I don’t ruin it when comes time to quilt it. I hope not. Usually things look better after quilting!

This one features 2.5” squares made into 9 patches.

And no, I don’t have a name yet - but it will be something with the Shadow or Shadowed in it. It is so similar to others I have done, it seems strange to actually consider it different, but it is a tad bit different - the size and the use of the HST on the edge of the shadow,

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading!

Becky Petersen5 Comments