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12-09-2016 05:53 AM |
Nine Patch and Hour Glass
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Christmas 1998 I received the book "Quick and Easy Scrap Quilts" a Leisure Arts book. I immediately fell in love with the quilt on the back cover, which was a table topper made from scraps. 3 1/2 inch ninepatch and 3 1/2 inch hourglass blocks bordered with a vine and flowers. I began my quilt in 1998, piecing a little here and a little there. Had to purchase extra fabric a couple different times, as back in those days I had not made enough quilts to have enough scraps to make a scrap quilt. When I went to purchase fabric, instead of asking for fat quarters, I requested 1/8th yard be cut from the bolt of several different. ( Boy! did I get a strange look from the sales person) But I did not know about fat quarters back then, and I thought if I had longer lenghts of fabrics I could strip piece faster. (but, that is another story of how the sales person and I became great friends). Anyway, a year or so ago I finally finished piecing the top, now a king size instead of a table topper. A month or so ago I got it quilted and last month I put the binding on. Oh no, another story: I could not find enough of the navy border fabric to make the binding so I put on the black binding. The quilt laid out, and I kept looking at it, not liking the black binding. Then while looking for something else I found some navy that might work better then the black, so ripped off the black binding and attached the navy - Much better! I now love my quilt. The label is added and I can enjoy it.
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