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First one – finished 9/3/21

#2 finished 9/21/21 55×39 inches

#3 finished 9-27-21 given away 6/8/23 A “jellyroll race” quilt with Halloween fabric

#4 Finished 10/11/21

Fabric for the top came from Jo-Anns and Etsy. Fabric for the back came from SmArt art and craft supplies. I bought the Jo-Ann’s fabric and the Smart fabric before I knew how to quilt, knowing that I wanted to learn. This was made for sitting on the grass.

#5 finished 12/9/21 Blue-brown disappearing 9 patch. Fabrics from a fat quarter bundle from JoAnn’s in Rivergate (before I knew how to quilt) and Make & Mend. Sold 9/10/23

#6 finished 1/11/22 Donated to Caris Hospice 7/23/23 54×40″

#7 Grandfather Mountain view in the fall finished 3/23/22 All fabric bought in Boone, NC

#8 Finished June 7, 2022, given as a baby blanket for my chiropractor. I learned how to do half-square triangles

#9 Finished June 14, 2022 Given as a baby blanket for a clerk at the pharmacy I use.

#10 finished 7/12/22 Disappearing Chattanooga. Disappearing 9 patch made with fabrics bought in Chattanooga TN.

#11 finished 11/9/22 Sold to a neighbor. First log cabin quilt. All fabric from SmArt.

#12 Scrappy X finished 11/10/22 I learned how to do this from a YouTube channel called “My Sewing Room”. Fabric from “My Fabric Addiction” and “Farfalla Originals” on Etsy

#13 Finished 12/16, 2022 6 disappearing 9 patch panels, made from 9 inch squares. Used 14 fat quarters. Given as a gift to my husband. It is flannel.

#14 finished Jan 6, 2023 I didn’t cut or sew the HSTs. They were in a bag from Make and Mend. I assembled them into this pattern, to resemble fish in a pond. 61×37 inches

#15 finished 3/4/23 Kantha, technique by Terry Rowland. Fabric by Smart. Now I know why to sew coming from alternate sides

#16 finished 4/12/23 Fence rail. 49×52 inches. Gifted 2/26/26

#17 finished 6/19/26 Sashiko quilting on shibori

#18 finished 4/27/23 Rainbow postage stamp. Colorful fabric from “Shanzay’s Sewing Co” on Etsy

#19 finished 5/24/23 Halloween nap blanket for my husband

#20 finished 6/20/23 Donated to Caris Hospice 7/27/23

#21 finished June 22, 2023 Fabric from “My fabric addiction” on Etsy

#22 finished 3/25/23 gifted 4/8/23 (forgot to take a photo of it so it got lost in the numbering) The recipient uses it as sound baffling because he is a musician. All Halloween fabrics. First picture is from him, second is the fabric before I sewed it (better light)

#23 finished 6/24/23 given 1/1/24 ‘L7″ quilt, fireflies at twilight. Fabric from JoAnn’s

#24 finished 7/7/23. Donated 7/27/23 All fabric from Smart. Autumn Leaves and Twigs

#25 finished 7/7/23 Patriotic Log Cabin. all fabric from Smart. Donated 10/18/24

#26 finished 7/14/23. Some hand quilting with perle cotton. Fabrics from Smart and Etsy

#27 finished 7/12/23 Autumn log cabin. Fabric from Smart

#28 finished 7/14/23 58 x 43 inches. A meditation on the “new normal” after Covid

#29 finished 12/6/23 Also made the back. Top- JoAnn, back, Smart

#30 finished 12/12/23 Gifted. Batman comic strip. Fabric from Hobby Lobby

#31 finished 12/12/23. Donated 10/17/24 Fabric from Smart. One-quarter log cabin

#32 finished 12/13/23. Donated 10/18/24 (yes, I made the same quilt twice)

#33 finished 12/29/23 63×48 inches. All Egyptian and African fabrics from Smart

the back

#34 finished 1/17/24 48×51

the back

#35 finished July 27, 2024 Mystic panels. Fabric from Smart

close up

#36 finished 7/27/23 fat quarter favorites. Dinosaur fabric from Hobby Lobby. Some from a fabric shop in Chattanooga

#37 finished 9/11/24 Orange/Pink orphan – created during a week when there was an ice/snow storm (Jan 2024) Learned Courthouse Steps, Wonky Star, Disappearing 4 patch, and practiced different sizes of make 4 at once HSTs for an upcoming project. Listening to “Otherland”

#38 finished 10/16/24 Blade Runner quilt as you go.

#39 finished 10/29/24 Panel from “Ready Set Sew” in Chattanooga, in 2022. Charm pack from “My Fabric Addiction” on Etsy

#40 finished 11/6/24 (after Election day). Scrap bundle from Smart. Given as a baby blanket to a local baker/ coffee shop owner. Good HST practice. Also, first time to bind it like normal quilters do.

#41 finished 11/9/24 Tilda X and O. Colorful fabrics from a fat eighth bundle from Smart. Given to my aunt who was in a nursing home.

#42 finished 11/21/24 Irish Chain

#43 finished 12/28/24 Lime/Liberty Liberty of London quilting fat quarters from “The Last Homely House” youtube channel. Lime Green fabric from JoAnn’s

Quilted using Aurifil thread that came with the Christmas packet

#44 finished 1/1/25 Fish in a pond. Given to my husband. Fabric from SmArt

#45 finished 4/2/25 browns from Smart, pink/blue/green centers from JoAnn’s Log cabin – but a Chocolate Cupcake with Sprinkles. Backing fabrics were a fortuitous find.

#46 finished 4/3/25 Train nap blanket. Fabric from Smart

#47 finished 4/9/25 Given to my chiropractor for his second baby. 4/30/25 Geisha in a tea garden. Fabric from Smart

#48 finished 4/17/25 Dpmated 5/1/25 Scrappy Log Cabin. Fabric from Smart

#49 finished 4/22/25 Dpmated 5/1/25 Panel from Ready Set Sew, rest from Smart

#50. finished 6/16/25 Donated 7/1/25 Fabric from Smart, by way of Stitcher’s Garden

#51 Finished 6/18/25 Donated 7/1/25 Potato Chip blue/yellow. All fabric from Smart

#52 finished 6/29/25 Donated 7/1/25 Fabric from Smart

#53 finished 7/3/25 46×35 inches. “round” roses fabric from Smart 6″ and 12″ blocks

#54 finished 8/17/25 Sushi Roll All top fabric from Smart. Back is from JoAnns, as it was closing

#55 finished 10/16/25 Sold. All Japanese fabric. From Smart

back is Chinese fabric

#56 finished 11/18/25 43 inches square. Donated 2/20/26 Parrot D9patch. All fabric from Smart

#57 finished 12/12/25 Science fiction landscape. All fabric from Smart

The back

#58 Finished 12/18/25 Donated 2/20/26 Terry Rowland’s color wash, Polaroids

#59 finished 12/31/25 Tokyo nights. Marcia Derse fabrics, on Etsy

#60 finished 1/20/26 Tilda/Kaffe

Since September of 2021 I’ve made 60 quilts. Of those, I’ve given away 14 (of that, 4 were for babies), sold 3, and donated 13 to Hospice.

You can make a nice quilt out of just 9 fat quarters. Depending on the size you need you may want to add sashing. These examples are using the traditional quilting design known as “Disappearing 9-Patch”, which I’ll sometimes refer to as D9P here.

I trimmed these fat quarters (originally 18 inches by 21 inches) into 18” squares, then cut those into 9 squares that are 6” each.

The yellow at the top was the middle of all the 9 patches. I used the colors in order, and then rotated the first one that I started with to make them all different.

This is what it looks like with the 9 patches sewn together. There are 9 sets of 9-patches.

Then I cut the patches in half horizontally and diagonally, rearranged the units, and re-sewed them. These are now “disappearing 9-patches”, a traditional quilt block.

The colors that you want to dominate the design need to be in the corners of the original 9-patch. They remain uncut after the division to make it a disappearing 9 patch. The color in the middle of the design gets cut up the most – it becomes four small squares. So put the fabric that you like the least in the center, or the one that overwhelms the others. The remaining fabrics (they are on the sides, in the middles) become rectangles.

But after all that sewing, a lot of the fabric was in the seams, so the 9-patches weren’t big enough for an adult quilt. They would work fine for a baby quilt. So I added sashing.

Each completed D9P is 14.5” square, as sewn into this quilt. If I’d not included the sashing, the quilt would have been about 43” square, which is 3’7”.

I added “jelly roll” sashing (2.5” before sewing) and it became 51” square, which is 4’3”.

The first would be fine for a baby quilt, or maybe a lap quilt for someone in a wheelchair. The second works as a nap quilt, or for a couch /TV/ snuggle quilt. It is also good for taking on road trips.

With the following example I cut the 18”squares into four 8.5” squares. I’d intended them to be 9” but I had a problem. So I adapted. There are four disappearing 9-patch panels, sewn together. I didn’t want it to be a square so I added more fabric to the top and bottom.

The patches are 22” square, so the quilt is 44” (3’8”). The extra fabric at the top adds 14” to the length. (4’10”)

This used 9 fat quarters for the D9P. Four in brown, four in blue, and one neutral (for the center). I used (I think) four other fat quarters (two brown, two blue) with maybe 9” squares, with some leftover, for the top and bottom extensions.

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If I cut the fabric into four 9” squares, the finished D9P should be about 25” square. Three panels across would be about 73 inches (6’1”). Square, that would be very large. That would require 21 fat quarters, with some fabric left over.

If I arrange them two across by three down, it would measure 50” (4’2” across) by 73 inches (6’3”)

This means there are 6 D9 Patches, which comprise 54 pieces of fabric total. That requires 14 fat quarters (will have two 9” squares remaining)

If I have two 21-piece bundles of fat quarters, I can make three D9P quilts with this design.

(11/30/22)