Originally Posted by cathyvv (Post 4859930)

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! :)

Originally Posted by cathyvv (Post 6404846)

GrannieAnnie, that quilt was finished and donated a long time ago. It did turn out nice, but I didn't take a picture of it. Sorry!

Originally Posted by deemail (Post 4860189)

one more idea...this works for all orphan and sampler blocks that don't match... sew a 2" strip along each side in a solid (matching or not, doesn't matter...)...now tilt a 12.5" square ruler till each corner hits the outside edge of the extra strips... the 9 patch will be tilted inside the frame and all will be 12.5 no matter what the original 9 patch was...