I wrote that title?? “Machine Piecing” — me?? I mentioned yesterday that I got ever so slightly off track on the weekend insofar as my stitching went. Well, this is one of the reasons.
I was the lucky recipient of some of Amy‘s fabric giveaway. One of the bags I received contained the makings of an entire quilt, all in batiks, and already cut. I knew this meant I had to make friends with the sewing machine and, to my absolute delight, I was able to put together about a dozen of the 9-patch blocks quite successfully!!
I have miles to go making 9-patch blocks to finish this but am so excited that I can make these successfully!! I know one of the reasons I don’t use the machine is that any amount of precision rotary cutting is absolutely out of the question for me. My hands and wrists ache for a couple of days after even minimal rotary cutting. So this is a huge treat — a quilt in a bag, so to speak, ready to stitch.
Thank you all for the comments on the quilting over stitchery issue! I learned a lot from every one of them. I’m still a bit undecided, although I’m leaning towards just in the ditch around the butterfly hexagons — mostly because my machine quilting skills are marginal and certainly don’t extend beyond straight-line quiltling. Stippling or meandering or curves are way beyond my level!!
Lester sometimes snores and we got this picture of him sound asleep, mouth open and ever so gently snoring.
Smudge, looking like — well, I’m not quite sure what that look is saying.
Quilt Obsession 
What beautiful 9-patches! Must be so frustrating not to be able to cut out a quilt. Thank goodness you can do the hand stitching!
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Beautiful patches. I love 9 patch quilts and love seeing other 9 patch blocks. The cat is cute too!
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Have fun with your machine and 9 patches . . . . I’m calling the new year 2009 Patch *s*
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Cathi you know I love those little 9 patches. How cute this is going to be and what a fantastic win! Great for you and for all of us to watch this come to life.
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Oh I love those blocks and the great thing about 9 patches is that they make a great alternate block in a quilt!Enjoy your machine sewing for a change! LOL
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Cathi, you have been one busy gal! I love those nine patches. Lester snoring is a hoot. The baby quilt with the stitcheries is adorable and the picture of the boys together is special. I love the apple core quilt. I’m behind reading my blogs.Glad I caught up with you!
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Love those fabrics in the 9 patches!One of my cats snores softly when she’s really out of it too. Soo funny. That mouth-open pose reminds me of an old man or something.
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Wow! Look at what I’ve missed over my weekend break! 9-patches! Drunkard’s path! Hexagon Stars! Wow! Great fabrics! 8-)Happy stitchings!
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What a perfect win for you! And they’re so cute, too!Congratulations!
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your boys are so cute 🙂 Moose snores also-lol. Really cute with him and hubby snozing on the couch snoring together :)I ordered inklingo’s apple cores yesterday and I must be missing something as I can’t get them to lay flat 😦 Now does Linda use more than one pin? I’ve been pinning to the next cross hatch and I just can’t get it. very frustrating to say the least.
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Lovely nine patches. Great colours!
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You’ve done a great job with your nine patches. You will have a nice quilt when you’re finished. Very cute picture of Lester.Christine
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you lucky duck winning all that lovely fabric, can’t wait to see the finished results.Gill
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Great blocks Cathi…nice choice of fabrics….nice photos of the boys..great one of Lester.
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I still love that backgroud fabric…Your 9-patches look great!BTW I am the opposite – cutting with scissors bugs my thumb.
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