It's All About The Process

The green and yellow comforter on my bed has to go!  A quick perusal of several quilt sites and I found Thomas Knauer's Thesaurus line.

You could hear the wheels turning and grinding until I saw a disappearing nine patch quilt and the lights went on.  I had my pattern and I could have used white as a background but white and I don't get along.  Besides, I just made a few quilts using white and I wanted something different.

So the process begins.  Here is the notebook where I plot out how many nine patches I need and how big to make them.

Here are four rows of six nine patches waiting their turn.

 Here is the start of the fifth row.

Here is the last nine patch of row five.  Oh no!!!!  I ran out of red?  What happened to all that careful planning?  I was sure I counted right; carefully cut each square exactly 6"x6". 

Let more cutting begin!

Not only didn't I cut out enough red squares, I need forty-five more 6"x6" blocks of the red and  Thesaurus to make up the five nine-patch blocks that complete the top.

After I finish the last of these blocks tomorrow, I'm going to give the top a rest.  Each nine patch needs to be cut in half twice. That leaves me with 144 blocks to put back together.  That's if I've done my math correctly this time.  The fun part will be re-arranging the blocks and putting them back so no seam touches another seam.

To be continued . . . .