A long, long time ago I started the 9 patch quilt along with Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts. She was using scraps, but I didn't want so use mine for this project. I don't love the traditional nine patch design (with an x through it), but I had some purple (purple?) in my stash that I'd had for at least 10 years. I figured it was a good way to use it up and a new challenge - why not?
So I set to work cutting it into squares. I finished the quilt top and then put it away for at least a year. Just recently I figured out the perfect person to give it to because I really don't want it. I don't even really like purple. I started collecting purple and yellow because of this one print (the posies on white background). So I gave it to Emily - of Emerson Quilting - and now it looks like this:
Not my fave. But I'm pretty sure the new owner loves it. And that's really all that matters anyway.
After I'd already started the purple one I saw this one by Rita of Red Pepper Quilts. It was around the time that everyone was going crazy for Katie Jump Rope and I talked myself into buying most of the line. I don't love the browns in that line with the rest of the fabrics, so I picked the ones I liked and started another 9 patch. This time with a white center and random colors all around. It is completely different and I like it much better!
I strip pieced this one rather than cutting out each square separately to begin with. I liked that much better and it came together faster. I did a scrappy binding and used the green posies (found on clearance) for the back. Emily also quilted this one for me and I love the quilting on it.
Lesson learned: If I don't like a fabric - I shouldn't try to make a quilt with it. (Unless it's for someone else - who will like it.)
I love this quilt, well actually both, but it is amazing how this one looks totally different than the first. Love it!!
ReplyDelete2 beautiful & suprisingly different quilts. x
ReplyDeleteLove the second one, too! The first just isn't bright enough to my liking =) Awesome job on both though!
ReplyDeleteLike Bonnie Hunter says, if you think the fabric is ugly, you didn't cut it up small enough. I love that saying, and use it to get rid of those god awful ugly fabrics that are in my stash.
ReplyDeleteI like the second quilt, can't believe how different they look.
ReplyDeleteLove the KJR... I am strugling right now with what to do with a stack of fabric that is not my favorite... the stack is 4 feet high :( I cut up some old flower prints and its going well, but the rest I can not work up any interest in at all.
ReplyDeleteYou know I love that Katie jump rope one! ;]
ReplyDeleteI like how these two quilts look like they are totally different styles too. The first looks much more traditional to me because of the softer colors while the second looks more modern.
ReplyDeleteWow the difference in fabric makes such a visual difference with what the pattern looks like. Great example! Love them both.
ReplyDeletegood lesson to learn, wish I would have not had all of the FMF in my quilt, I did not love it...I am doing that this time with the Denyse Schmidt line at JoAnn's. only buying the ones i LOVE or really, really like...lesson learned, love the white center in the KJR quilt!
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