Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Shaded 9-Patch

 

Humble Shaded 9 Patch.  From a box of scraps, and some 2 1/2" strips.  I used Karen Comb's book,  Combing through your Scraps, to help plan a design so I wouldn't have to get up and down from the floor/rug.  This finishes at 60" square.   Yes, one mistake .  I liked it that way, just to be stubborn.

I am quilting non-glamorous swirls in the dark areas and a wandering leafy thing in the lights, starting in the middle dark, then stopping at a border area to change thread.  I guess my  concentration skills applied only to the quilting part, and not on the value under the needle.  I "forgot" 3 separate times - you'd think a person can remember to STOP when moving between lights and darks!   Lots of picking threads out when I realized, too late, that my quilting just kept on going, crossing over border lines.