Last week at a guild meeting, I accepted quite a few 9 patch blocks. The block maker warned me that they were not straight. I took them anyway. They're quite pretty if you ignore the wonkiness. But - what to do with them?
I thought about it on and off all week, and finally a couple of feasible ideas flew into my brain. However, I'm pretty sure this is not a brand new idea...
1. Use the 9 patches to make flying geese. I tried it, it works, but I really don't like to make flying geese and the they were very bulky.
2) Use the 9 patches as corners on snowball blocks on a scrappy quilt.
3) Use the 9 patches for a 1/2 square triangles and put them together with my million other scraps to make a scrappy quilt.
I decided to do idea number 3, and have put together enough blocks to know I'm going to like the results. Even better, I'm reducing my mountain of scraps. Not by much, though.
When it's done, I'll post pictures. Just don't hold your breath!
