Another Nine Patch

Off and on this past year, I’ve been making another scrappy quilt with 2-inch squares. This will be the third Nine Patch scrap quilt I’ve made with 2-inch squares in the past couple of years.

When making scrap quilts like this one, I gather fabric bits, pre-sorted scraps and strips, and leftover fabric chunks. I iron the fabrics and begin cutting until I have a pile of patchwork. With these Nine Patch blocks, I only needed one shape, a square, so cutting the pieces was mindless and I could cut through scraps at my leisure.

Making little Nine Patch blocks is easy and lots of scrappy fabrics can be put to use making functional bed quilts.

Since I had so many 2-inch squares and a seemingly endless supply of cotton scraps, I kept sewing. Instead of making more of the basic Nine Patch blocks, I stitched the 48 blocks into a different patchwork block resembling Puss In The Corner with a Nine Patch center. Still an easy block, but larger, using more scraps!

Now that I am assembling the blocks and the four-block unit, the quilt top will come together quickly. The light-colored print, used as the background fabric, is a new fabric I purchased this year for a future scrap quilt. When I was ready to assemble the blocks, I rummaged through my stash and I found an old Gutcheon cotton fabric. Since it was a peach print, I decided to use that fabric as the sashing between the blocks, bringing more of a peach tone into this scrap quilt. I’m hoping that I have enough of this 25+ year old Gutcheon print for all of the sashing — I only have a 1 yard cut.

Four blocks come together to make the four-block unit, creating another Nine Patch in the center.

Here is my design wall, sunlight streaming through, showing the blocks in various stages of stitching:

So many scrappy 2-inch squares remain!! I wonder what the border will be made with….

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Tags: Nine Patch, Quilt, Scraps