It was 9-Patch Workshop day

I held a workshop at The Old Craft Store today.

It was quite fun. 

My purple scrappy 9-patch was inspired by a Pinterest pin that lead me to a tutorial by Red Pepper Quilts.  I wrote about making up my quilt in The Old Craft Store blog update Opportunities to create!

The funny thing is that the pin photo inspired me and I didn't actually read the Red Pepper Quilts tutorial until after I made my quilt top.  I mean, nine-patches are a basic quilt block. It was one of the first I learned how to make!

Red Pepper Quilts and I differed in our construction techniques! Red Pepper Quilts used strip sets and I cut each of my squares first before assembling the 9-patch. I tell you this because while their method is faster, the method I used allowed me to use more of my smaller scraps.

But it was great providing different techniques to today's workshop attendees.

And they jumped right into making their 9-patches.

combining both techniques sometimes

one of my favorite sounds is the humming of sewing machines!

I, myself, got distracted with the crumb pieces. And my co-worker Doris happily contributed to my distraction by giving me some of her left over pieces.

I did get a few 9-patches done. Wow!! Is it too gold/yellow?! I'm not sure I'm ok with this. I'll need to make a few more to get a better look at my color choice. 🤞

Doris chose to use only blues and it's already very stunning!!

 Unfortunately, I didn't get photos of the other attendee blocks while up on the design board. It's really neat to see how color choices make the same block look so different! I do hope I get to see how their 9-patch tops turn out when finished.

Other piecing I've been working on...

A Pickle Dish pattern in the book "Quilt Romance" by Kaffe Fassett.
More about my Pickle Dish in The Old Craft Store blog update Stash builder doubles as stash buster

And I'm stitching a Cathedral Window!! Much of my stitching focus will be on this project now.  I'm machine piecing the foundation, then the rest is done by hand.  

I'll be doing a class in March or April, depending when the Chickadee collection arrives at The Old Craft Store.

Thanks for coming by to see what has been striking my Whimsy!