Originally Posted by mpeters1200

These have been in various stages of progress for about a year and a half. I had a friend of mine work with me to create a darling little 9 patch quilt for her daughter. I thought her other two younger ones would like quilts too. Well....the friend was all in for the work for the older one, but hasn't even asked to see the progress on these two....doesn't stop her from griping when I get other projects finished for other people though. We were much closer friends during the first quilts process....not so much now. I just want them done. I adore the kids and they deserve having a quilt too.

The boy's D9P has cost me the MOST work. I didn't like the 9 patches as they were going together. The blocks were just too big. So I seam ripped all of them and chopped them down to 4.5 inches. I fussy cut cars on half of them and fussy cut stars and flags on the other half. Now all the 9 patches are complete and ready for cutting.

Top and bottom of blocks

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...ttomstrips.jpg[/IMG]

Center of blocks

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...enterstrip.jpg[/IMG]

Fussy cut stars and flags

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsandflags.jpg[/IMG]

Fussy cut cars:

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...ssycutcars.jpg[/IMG]

Complete 9 patch block:

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...lete9patch.jpg[/IMG]

The girl's quilt is a Soduku. Only a few pics. I found a fatal flaw in my pattern so it won't be a true Soduku. Some of the placements repeat. Kind of a bummer to find out now, but all 9 are done and I have no intention on doing them again. No one in their house does the puzzles either so it's not like anyone is going to try and map them out and see the mistakes. I'll just be glad when these are done. I'm not moving on to any projects for 2011 until these are DONE!

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...dukublock9.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...dukublock8.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...dukublock7.jpg[/IMG]