Seems like forever since I've posted anything here, but I will be posting stuff from when we reveal our challenge quilts at guild next week.
In the meantime...a little fun last Saturday! Several of us had received free patterns in the mail for making a Sudoku quilt. If you work the puzzles, you know what I'm talking about! In the puzzle version you have to arrange the numbers 1 through 9 so each square, each column, and each row have those numbers. In the quilt version you do the same thing with 9 fabrics! We decided to give it a try.
I came up with several combos that I want to do and this is my first one. I had not put all the black sashing on yet when the photo was taken.
Rosie opted for a bunch of green and brown batiks! We laid the sashing there for the photo. None of us got the sashing done before we pooped out and went home.
Earlene found these beautiful jewel colors at WalMart. Now she wants a fabric to add a border that will go with them.
Earlene also showed us her Drunkard's Path blocks. She says she calls it the "path never to be taken again"! I have always wanted a Drunkard's Path quilt, but have cringed at the idea of all those curved blocks to make. Maybe some day.........maybe not.
At home I have started a second Sudoku quilt....the blocks are done but not sashed. I will probably put a border on this one to make a nice little lap quilt out of it. There are so many possibilities.....9 children's fabrics for an "I spy" quilt...... 9 flower fabrics......9 colors.....9 Christmas fabrics, etc! It just takes 9 fat quarters and your sashing fabric. Cut 9.... 4 1/2" squares of each fabric and make your blocks using any finished Sudoku puzzle for a pattern. You have to be very careful to get the squares in the right order and you can not rearrange them after you make the blocks. I numbered my stacks and then moved them into the correct configuration for each block as I made it, so I could keep looking to make sure it was right, and then I pinned on a number to keep them in order.
If you are tired, it is soooooooo easy to mess up and sew something wrong! I sewed one entire row on upside down and had to rip out several other "boo boos" with my second quilt. The sashing is cut 1 1/2" inches wide. Without borders it is rather small......40 1/2" square, but will make a nice wall hanging or baby quilt, etc.
I call this one "Modified Kitty Sudoku". This is a little lap pad for my favorite kitty. She loves to lay on my lap with a quilt under her, but that is so hot in the summer! So I thought a smaller one that I can just put where she lays would be nice. I was tired of making 9-patches and she can't count anyway, so I did a 4-patch modification :-) Believe it or not, I had more trouble with this one than the larger ones!
Sudoku: A simple project with a lot of applications using different fabrics!
I came up with several combos that I want to do and this is my first one. I had not put all the black sashing on yet when the photo was taken.
Rosie opted for a bunch of green and brown batiks! We laid the sashing there for the photo. None of us got the sashing done before we pooped out and went home.
Earlene found these beautiful jewel colors at WalMart. Now she wants a fabric to add a border that will go with them.
Earlene also showed us her Drunkard's Path blocks. She says she calls it the "path never to be taken again"! I have always wanted a Drunkard's Path quilt, but have cringed at the idea of all those curved blocks to make. Maybe some day.........maybe not.
At home I have started a second Sudoku quilt....the blocks are done but not sashed. I will probably put a border on this one to make a nice little lap quilt out of it. There are so many possibilities.....9 children's fabrics for an "I spy" quilt...... 9 flower fabrics......9 colors.....9 Christmas fabrics, etc! It just takes 9 fat quarters and your sashing fabric. Cut 9.... 4 1/2" squares of each fabric and make your blocks using any finished Sudoku puzzle for a pattern. You have to be very careful to get the squares in the right order and you can not rearrange them after you make the blocks. I numbered my stacks and then moved them into the correct configuration for each block as I made it, so I could keep looking to make sure it was right, and then I pinned on a number to keep them in order.If you are tired, it is soooooooo easy to mess up and sew something wrong! I sewed one entire row on upside down and had to rip out several other "boo boos" with my second quilt. The sashing is cut 1 1/2" inches wide. Without borders it is rather small......40 1/2" square, but will make a nice wall hanging or baby quilt, etc.
I call this one "Modified Kitty Sudoku". This is a little lap pad for my favorite kitty. She loves to lay on my lap with a quilt under her, but that is so hot in the summer! So I thought a smaller one that I can just put where she lays would be nice. I was tired of making 9-patches and she can't count anyway, so I did a 4-patch modification :-) Believe it or not, I had more trouble with this one than the larger ones!Sudoku: A simple project with a lot of applications using different fabrics!
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One of these in a lap size with a couple of Sudoku books would make a great gift for Christmas for your favorite puzzle worker!
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2 comments:
I have never made a nine patch, but I love love this sudoko style quilt you are making here. I really like the one with the batiks. I have a few fabrics that I like so much I hate to cut them up. These really show the fabric. So cute, the kitty sudoko. Glad you were able to put these on your blog. I enjoyed seeing them.
Brenda: These are a simple quilt to do as long as you follow your puzzle pattern carefully for the color placement. Of course, if you don't care about the puzzle part, you can do a 9-patch in a million ways :-) I like making 9-patches. The batik one didn't show the pattern as well, but I love batiks and these were all green (my favorite color. I have some of those "Can't stand to cut it" fabrics, too. There is a book out called that which has patterns to show off ones you hate to cut.
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