Posted in Quilting
All quilters have to start somewhere & why not the same as Laura & Mary Ingalls did with a nine patch - click hereto see a Quilt at the Wilder Museum that is on display made by Laura & her daughter Rose. And do tell me if you ever go & visit.
Laura Ingalls books bring back warm memories of our younger years at home schooling - we did a big pioneer unit & loved it! We used Prairie Primer I regret selling this & keep my eye out for it to come up 2nd hand here in New Zealand. (we are currently using The Anne of Green Gables unit study & also loving this!)
Some of us have been making blocks of the month here at hsb - sadly the lady left without saying goodbye - she started us off using 12 inch blocks - hence our beginners block will be 12 inches also. I will share a new block o the 1st of each month
You can make the nine patch in any colours you wish - as we are aiming for our block of months to have 1 background colour & 8 fat quarters you could do a block of each colour.
You could use just two colours as Laura & Rose did here
Or you could have the centre with a main feature as I have.
Ok so you need to cut 9 blocks 4 1/2 inch square.
This is mine 4 yellow (my background colour), 4 blue & 1 feature all 4 1/2 inch square.
Here is my 9 patch all laid out ready for sewing.Tomorrows lesson will be on sewing your patch.
Have fun cutting your block
And here is an example of a finished quilt using th 9 inch block - but just smaller blocks.
I should of laid it out flat instead of just snapping the photo of quilt sitting folded up on end of bed - but you get the idea.Have fun & let me know how you go cutting out your blocks.
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Caro with her litter,we always have a litter of kittens in our home! 
Some of our Sheep & this years lambs; won’t tell you which are going in pot
