{"id":24579,"date":"2014-08-27T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:28:24","slug":"wonky-9-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/wonky-9-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonky 9 Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember this quilt? I haven’t worked on it in a while, thought it has been on the list<\/a> for awhile. Working on it what I did on the weekend when I wasn’t at the races (wearing a big hat like I was at Ascot or something), doing laundry or answering one of the 1000 questions I get asked when I am at home.<\/p>\n

I also don’t think I wrote much about it. The first time I wrote about the piece<\/a>, it seems like it was in a very embryonic stage. The last time I wrote about that piece<\/a>, the top was done. Hhhmm. Talk about quick projects.<\/p>\n

The project has been on my mind. I got a bug in my ear to quilt it myself and that was sitting in the back of my mind taunting me. I wasn’t sure how long it would take me. I wanted to get it done during these two weeks (last week and this week), because I was off work and I could devote some serious time to quilting.<\/p>\n

\"Wonky<\/a>
Wonky 9 Patch – quilting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because this quilt didn’t have a border and I didn’t think the design called for one, I put on what I call a ‘quilting border’. A quilting border gives me something to cut off when I am squaring up the quilt and don’t want to chop of points or parts of the design for a piece that didn’t end up quite square. I learned to do this after chopping off points and designs on the Punk Rock Quilt<\/a>. the only tricky part is to make sure you cut off enough so that the edge will be completely covered by the binding.<\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/a>
Orange blocks quilted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, I quilted straight-ish lines in all of the orange wonky 9 patches. I used Aurifil #2145 for the orange blocks. I didn’t intentionally follow any lines or do any in the ditch quilting, except when I was trying to get from one part of the block to another. I did try and keep the three lines in each block about the same distance away from each other. However, sometimes I veered off track a little to make sure that there was a relatively even amount of quilting in each area. I also wanted the quilt to drape so that was another reason not to quilt too densely. That went pretty well and I didn’t see any puckers on the back. I quilted all of the orange blocks in a few hours on one afternoon.<\/p>\n

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\"Plain<\/a>
Plain block quilting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the orange blocks, came the hard part.\u00a0 Shockingly, I had an idea for the plain block quilting as well. I found a vaguely Celtic design that would work for my idea. I wanted it to be round, but all of the round designs I found were too complicated.\u00a0I used Paint to enlarge the design.<\/p>\n

I also didn’t want the design to scream out at viewers, so I used a companion color to the blue fabric (FYI: Aurifil #2740). I also used a walking foot on all of the quilting. I don’t usually do that, but it worked pretty well in keeping the puckers down.<\/p>\n

I used Saral paper and a Sewline pencil to transfer the design. I really use the Saral paper. I don’t think there is much of the yellow left. I used the Sewline to fill in when the Saral rubbed off and I wasn’t finished quilting.<\/p>\n

I quilted a couple of the plain blocks and figured out how to stop and start only once, assuming all went well. Not all of the blocks are perfect but, as Frances<\/a> says, the Muggles won’t know. I think the overall impact is pretty striking.<\/p>\n

One thing I wish I had done was use orange in the bobbin on the plain blocks. As it stands the blue quilting really stands out on the back.<\/p>\n

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