Grab My Button!

Grab My Button

Follow Me on Pinterest
Craftsy Block of the Month

Kim's Crafty Apple

the Apple

Canton Village Quilt Works
Amy's creative side

Fabric Fascination Quilt Along

Free Motion Quilt Along

another Quilt Along!

May For Me - BINGO!

Marcia's Crafty Sewing & Quilting
Photobucket

My Flickr Stream!

www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos and videos from KimsCraftyApple. Make your own badge here.

Quilting Bloggers Logo
Guest Blogger on Quilting Gallery

My Blog List

Kim's Crafty Apple has MOVED to www.PersimonDreams.com

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Spinning Nines Tutorial – A New Block and A Pieced & Quilted Table Runner

 003 I used the fabric line Dandelion Daydream by Mayberry for this fantastic new Table Runner.  It’s not my typical choice for fabrics but when I saw it I knew I had to have it and make something with it! I just love these colors together – so classic and rich.   

Well – in my dreams I came up with a new ‘spin’ on the nine patch. Most of us quilter’s know how to make a Disappearing Nine Patch block by cutting the nine patch in half horizontally and vertically – well – what happens to a Nine Patch when you cut it in half diagonally – you get Spinning Nines!

Directions

Start by cutting out 1 set of 5 ‘dark’ fabrics and 4 ‘light’ or ‘medium’ fabrics into 3.5” strips WOF.  Cut these strips in half.  Pair up 12 of the strips – one dark to one light/medium and sew together.  Iron towards the darker fabric.  Add a dark fabric to the opposite side of the light strips on some and a light fabric to the opposite side of a dark strip on others.  009Once you have these strip sets made cut them into 3.5” stirps the long way to create your nine patches.  You’ll want four squares made with 5 lights and 4 made with 5 darks.  Lay them out so the darks and lights go every other like a checkerboard.  011

   Once you have a general layout figured out take your nine patches off the wall.  Here’s the ‘trick’ (not much of one).012 You’re going to cut your nine patch in half diagonally.  Do this with all the blocks you created.  008Swap triangles with light centers with triangles that are dark.  You can see what I mean in the picture of the block above.  013

I would recommend laying out all your triangles so you make sure you have opposite darks/lights.  You can see in the picture above something is wonky with the top two blocks.  When I stepped back and looked I saw it before I sewed everything together. 

Sew them together back into a square.  Square blocks down to 8.5”.   014  Once your blocks are all square, sew them together into a 2 x 4 block table runner.  How cool does that look!  I have decided to name it a ‘Spinning Nine’ Block. 

010I decided that this runner just needed a simple straight line angled stitching.  I LOVE the look of this quilting and think it’s perfect for the table runner – my ‘Spinning Nines’    006

I bound my final runner with the same diagonal print I used on some of my squares in my nine patch. 

Final Table Runner Size:  16” x 32”

Please let me know if you have any questions about how to make your own Spinning Nine Blocks!  I realize while I was putting this tutorial together I may need to take more pictures of my process.  I have more patterns you can do with this block/technique coming soon so be sure to stop back!

4 comments:

Mishka said...

Love this Kim .. so much fun. It's a disappearing nine patch gone wild. LOL

Unknown said...


Hi nice Post written by you guys. It is amazing and
wonderful to visit your site. Thank a ton



wholesale touch screen gloves

Blogger said...

This is how my associate Wesley Virgin's tale starts in this SHOCKING and controversial VIDEO.

As a matter of fact, Wesley was in the army-and soon after leaving-he revealed hidden, "self mind control" secrets that the CIA and others used to get anything they want.

These are the EXACT same SECRETS lots of famous people (notably those who "became famous out of nowhere") and top business people used to become wealthy and famous.

You probably know how you only use 10% of your brain.

That's really because most of your brainpower is UNCONSCIOUS.

Perhaps this expression has even occurred INSIDE your very own brain... as it did in my good friend Wesley Virgin's brain 7 years ago, while riding an unregistered, beat-up trash bucket of a car without a license and with $3.20 in his bank account.

"I'm so fed up with going through life check to check! Why can't I turn myself successful?"

You've taken part in those types of thoughts, right?

Your own success story is going to happen. You need to start believing in YOURSELF.

WATCH WESLEY SPEAK NOW

Health is Wealth said...

Apna Showroom Velvet 3D Rose Flower Design Cushions Pillow grey sunflower rose designers fancy for Office Back Cushion/Valentine Gift Pack of 2 (blue, 14×14 inch
Velvet 3D Rose Flower Design Cushions Pillow for Office Back Cushion/Valentine Gift Pack of 2 (Blue, 18×18 inch)
Velvet 3D Rose Flower Design Cushions Pillow for Office Back Cushion/Valentine Gift Pack of 2 (Pink, 18×18 inch)
Velvet 3D Rose Flower Design Cushions Pillow for Office Back Cushion/Valentine Gift Pack of 2 (Tomato Red, 18×18 inch)
Velvet 3D Rose Flower Design Cushions Pillow for Office Back Cushion/Valentine Gift Pack of 2 (Yellow, 18×18 inch)
Apna Showroom Dressing Hair Comb for Men, Kids, Girls, lice combs for Ladies And Women
Apna Showroom Dressing Hair Comb for Men, Kids, Girls, lice combs for Ladies And Women lice combs
Apna Showroom Men's and Women's Metal Hair Bands (Black) Combo set of 5 with desent look

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
Baby Clothing, Quilts, Bags, Jewelry, and Hoodies!

Sign Up for my Newsletter!

My Wonderful Sponsors!

My Wonderful Sponsors!
Fat Quarter Shop

Spice Berry Cottage

10% OFF all fabrics!

10% OFF all fabrics!
use coupon code KIMSCRAFTY

Project QUILTING on Facebook

Marcia's Crafty Sewing & Quilting

PersimonDreams on Facebook

Generation Q Magazine

BWS tips button

Etsy Treasury Team

BWS tips button

Blog Archive

Popular Posts

Total Pageviews