Finally Ready to Sew

I am finally ready to sew the Framed 9 patch blocks together. They have been up on the wall for almost a month. I did some tweaking with the arrangement while I cleaned up the scraps and strips I had been  using for the blocks. I also did some sorting  and sewing of various length strips for piano key borders.

I had some fun days during those weeks. Jack's birthday dinner out with family and then everyone back home for cake and ice cream. There was a shop hop with some friends and a day sewing with a new friend who has been sewing since she was 8 years old but never quilted. I didn't get get a photo of her small piece but I will. She used some of my scraps and it turned out very nice and well done.
 There was also a lot of time spent doing all the everyday things that life throws in out path. That list seems to be getting longer or maybe everything just takes longer.

Today I was ready to sew, however.........
I noticed the two red prints in the lower corner looked almost the same. I started switching blocks around and I thought I was good to go sew. But then I remembered that I had decided to use three blocks with yellow solids across each corner and that meant more switching. Once you start switching blocks it always leads to messing up another area and then more switching and more messing up and more switching etc. It brought to mind the book  "If You Give A Mouse a Cookie".




Once again, I thought I was ready to sew until I noticed that block with the pale orange center (next to the red print in the photo above) now didn't look right next to the green print with the  yellow center . more switching and still more.

This is most of the quilt; 9 blocks by 11 blocks fits perfectly on my wall but I cant get a photo of the whole quilt.

Finally, I am ready to start sewing. Unless I make a lot more blocks and make 2 quilts, one with medium and dark value prints and one with medium and light value prints.
Or maybe I will sew it all together as it is and make a lot more blocks to make those other 2 quilts. I already have a start on the medium and dark print blocks. Even though I said I was going to leave everything in, I made some replacement blocks and took out about six blocks.

We'll see!

Blocks All Done

I finished these last 8 blocks today.  It has been a challenge getting time to work on them. I seem to have so many other things I have to do.













I made these 12 blocks a few at a time since my last post. Three of them are single blocks and the rest are half of a pair of prints blocks with a different solid in the 9 patch center.  I didn't get photos of everything because I stuck them up on the wall and moved tings around before I thought to photograph them. I  know there are a few more different prints too but I don't remember which ones they are.





























I am going to spend some time rearranging the blocks while and put away anything I won't be using. I want to get rid of the clutter before I start sewing the blocks together.