Red Nine Patch

My friend Wendy from Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life and I have been doing low-key sew-alongs together for a while now.  This time, we decided to pick a pattern from Cheryl Brickey's book Just One Charm Pack, since we both owned the book.  There are so many great patterns in this book!  We picked Nine Patch Challenge.

 

I've been working on making quilts for Fire Monkey's teachers and I only have their favorite color to go on. Mr. S, the dance teacher, likes red.  (Dance is one of the specials at our school, along with the more common art, music, PE, and library.)  Surprisingly, I don't have much red, but I did have a 2-yard cut of Island Batik's Imperial.  The yellows are scrappy but everything else doesn't change from block to block. While Cheryl's Nine Patch is much scrappier-looking, it worked to have a bit more of a standard palette.  

 

All fabrics are Island Batik. Mine is a bit bigger than the pattern, and I used yardage and scraps instead of a charm pack. I quilted it in what I think of as "Preeti Quilting" meaning wavy line stitch in a grid, a motif that the amazing Preeti uses a lot and it always looks great.  

While we chose the quilt together, Wendy & I worked at our own pace.  I know her top is completed but I don't believe she has shared hers yet.  I am working on a second version of this pattern because I do think it sings when there are more fabrics in the 9-patches.  The second version will be rainbow-ish!