Thursday, December 8, 2011

Quarter of Nine #2

You Can Make

Quarter-Of-Nine Block Quilts


























Starting With Shoo Fly Blocks








A Shoo Fly block is designed on a Nine Patch grid.

What if you make one and then cut it into quarters?





You can reassemble those quarters any way you choose to make new blocks.






I call blocks made this way Quarter-Of-Nine blocks.

Below are some quilt designs made using Shoo Fly blocks transformed into Quarter-Of-Nine blocks.







The quarters from this Shoo Fly block come in mirror-image pairs.

You need 4 quarters  the same to make a star block.

So it takes 2 Shoo Fly Blocks to make a star block and a mirror-image star block.















By making Quarter-Of-nine blocks from simple blocks like Shoo Fly you can design quilts that look more complicated than they really are.

3 comments:

  1. Wayne,

    More great designs ... and thank you for an idea ... I am going to use a quarter of Shoo Fly as a corner for a Nine Patch design. Wonder how many other designs I can quarter and use that way!!!

    Judy B

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  2. Judy

    There are a lot of blocks designed on a Nine Patch grid. So there are a lot of blocks you can quarter.

    When you quarter a block and sew it back together you lose some width in the new seams. You'll need to allow for that if you are pairing a quartered block with an unquartered one.

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