Tish, thanks so much for your note. My husband was stationed in Manchester when he was in the Air Force back in the 50's. My friend and I have decided that we are going to make a few quilts. I am so excited about this. Edie

I believe this is the shop I was at in August. The pictures on the internet look familiar. They were very friendly. We went to a few others but this one seemed to stand out. I don't remember going to one in Shakopee.

QUILTER'S HAVEN
14760 South Robert Trail
Rosemount, MN 55068
Telephone: 651-322-7071
Email Us: [email protected]

Check out this site for a fast, easy, disappearing 9 patch that I have used many times for charity quilts.

http://quiltsatcs.blogspot.com/2007/...-tutorial.html

What an absolutely fantastic idea for an easy, yet very attractive quilt. I printed it up and will use it for sure. I am thinking for a larger quilt, I will make the block 12" - Then I could do five across and six down. No sashing, just a small 2" border and a 4" border. Sounds good to me.

Thanks so much. Edie

It goes together really fast and it is a great way to use up smaller cuts of fabric. When I teach some of the younger gals at my church how to sew together block, many times I will use this pattern and let them try it out on our donated, sometimes small pieces of fabric. They all leave thinking that they have just done their first quilt because they were able to finish a lap quilt top in a couple of hours.

Good luck with it. You might also go to www.quilterscache.com and look at their block patterns, they tell you the difficulty and style of quilting for each block and there are hundreds of them.

You can also do this one using 2" strips sewn together on a foundation, square off the blocks, cut them diagonally both directions and exchange "sections" with other blocks for a scrappy quilt. You can either add sashing and a border or just make it scrappy.

All of my sampler quilts were made of Quilter's Cache 12" blocks. I love them, the directions are easy to follow and I have fun making them. Edie