Project 48 Quilt — Nine Patch Block

Have you heard about the Pro­ject 48 Quilt?   It’s an epic year long sampler being run by Crys­tal from Rasp­berry Spool and Linden from Vine Lines Quilt­ing.   Over the com­ing year four 9″ blocks will be revealed via the Pro­ject 48 Quilt web­site each month.   You can sign up to receive email updates on the web­site so you won’t miss a thing.  There are some awe­some people join­ing in so trust me, head over now and sign up, you won’t want to miss a thing!

Today I’m lucky enough to be one of the quilty friends (guest blog­gers) for Pro­ject 48 and right now on their web­site you’ll find a tutori­al from me for an updated Split Nine Patch that will work for stand­ard size quilt blocks (6”, 9”, 12”, etc) without hav­ing to cut crazy 1/16th pieces.    My re-engin­eer­ing of this block also means that you end up with a more even and sym­met­ric­al look than a tra­di­tion­al Split Nine Patch since the split bits are exactly one half or one quarter of the fea­ture squares.   Cool huh!

I’m really look­ing for­ward to put­ting this new block to use in a quilt but for now I’ve got some pic­tures of a little quilt I made recently to share with you.

I had a couple of charm packs of Hello Pet­al by Aneela Hoey I’d been hoard­ing for a while and def­in­itely didn’t want to cut it up any more than neces­sary so this really simple block was just per­fect and, I think, made for a super cute quilt for a super cute baby girl.

Tra­di­tion­ally made Split Nine Patch blocks were set into rows and then sep­ar­ated by white sash­ing.   To per­son­al­ise it for sweet little Remi I added a “R” with some Heat & Bond and roughly stitched around it.

And quilted it with a simple stipple.   It was backed with these cute pup­pies from the Ser­bert Pips line because Remi has a dog called Pon­ti­us that looks noth­ing like this but… he’s a dog so I fig­ure she’ll be a dog lov­ing kinda kid.

Just the oth­er day Remi’s Mummy sent a photo of Remi hav­ing a lovely time on the quilt.  I have to admit this type of quilt photo will always be my favour­ite!   There’s noth­ing bet­ter than see­ing a quilt used and loved.   And just quietly that Remi is ser­i­ously ador­able isn’t she!

Happy quilt­ing,