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

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Center of blocks

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Fussy cut stars and flags

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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!

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These are wonderful . Keep working on them and post the progress. These are just begging you to finish them. They are too cool not to be finished.

I think they look great!

They are so cute! What's HER problem?????????

They are so cute! What's HER problem?????????

Looking good :thumbup: :thumbup:

I agree :!:

Good for you. UFO's pile up quickly and these are too cute to become UFO's

Good luck in getting them done!! With the blocks done hopefully they will go together fast!

I've never had a UFO before, I don't want to start now. I'm just frustrated...glad they'll be done soon. I want to get working on the rest of my 2011 projects. All table runners and small projects. After spending 14 months on hubby's quilt, I need some small projects.

I don't really know what's happened to her....she's becoming more and more self absorbed. We never talk about anything but her anymore. Our kids are in the same grades and she is also my neighbor so I see the kiddos all the time. We still babysit for eachother and car pool and stuff...but we aren't what we used to be, that's for sure.