- 1). Create a template for the patch of the nine block quilt pattern. Draw a 5-inch square, using your ruler and pencil, onto a piece of poster board. Cut the square out with your scissors, keeping the dimensions as exact as possible.
- 2). Place the template on the backside of your scrap fabric. Trace around it and cut out the fabric. For the first block, you need four light-colored patches and five dark-colored patches. For the second block, you need four dark-colored patches and five light-colored patches. The fabrics can be solid colors or prints. You will alternate these two blocks throughout for the width and length you would like the quilt.
- 3). Pin together three patches in a row. Do this by placing a dark patch and a light patch together, right sides of the fabric together. Use straight pins to attach the two pieces. Sew a ¼ inch seam with the sewing machine, going over the straight pins. Remove the pins.
- 4). Place the third patch of an alternate shade, next to one of the sewn patches. Pin it as you did before, with the right sides of the fabric facing. Sew a ¼-inch seam over the pins. Remove the pins. You have your first of three strips of your nine patch block.
- 5). Repeat the same process of making the first quilt strip. Just remember that this will be the middle strip. All the patch colors will have to alternate, both horizontally and vertically.
- 6). Complete the last strip of the nine patch block pattern in the same manner. Again, make sure that the patch colors alternate up and down, as well as, sideways.
- 7). Press with the iron all the seams of the three strips to the left. This is different than when constructing a garment and the seams are opened and pressed. The seams will have more strength when they are pressed in one direction.
- 8). Use the straight pins to attach the top and middle strips together, with the right sides of the fabrics facing. Sew a ¼-inch seam all the way across. Remove the pins.
- 9). Attach the top two connected strips with the last bottom strip of the nine patch block in the same manner. Press all these seams downward.
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Make as many quilt blocks as needed for the size quilt you are desire. Attach the quilt blocks in the same manner as you did the individual patches, making a strip of blocks the width of your quilt. Then, attach the strips together for the length of your quilt. Be sure that the blocks alternate between block one and block two, throughout.
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