Assemble a 9" Double Nine-Patch block.

Maybe I should have titled this Naughty Nines. There's (141) 4.5" nine patches in this quilt. So much for a quickie quilt. Oh well, the finished product will be worth the effort. And that's the great thing about nine patches, they can be as simple or complicated as you want to make them. The pattern I'll be making is pretty simple but the quantity complicates it. When finished it's destined for my Shabby Blue spare bedroom. A couple of the displayed quilts in that room are more complex, so I…

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Use strip-piecing short cuts to make this Nine Patch quilt in a traditional Irish Chain style. Gray and white low volume fabrics give it a modern feel.

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Just now I finished putting the rows together on my Double Nine Patch quilt top. My goodness, working with these leader and ender blocks has been a lot of fun! This is probably as far as I'll get for a little while. I need to decide on the perfect inner border fabric for it, and then as you'll see in the next picture, I have a little work cut out for me for the next border. I'm just learning how to use EQ7. I have never used any of the EQ programs before, so I'm on a little bit of a steep…

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