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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Playing while it's snowing

Well, we ended up with about 6" of snow yesterday...
a lot for my area of Virginia.

So while the snow was falling,
I was sewing!

I finished making the nine patches for the borders of
my "Mardi Gras" quilt.

Hopefully I'll get those sewn into rows in the next couple of days.

The other day Judy posted the

Well...
since I have all of these purples and greens out,
and since I cut too many 2 1/2" squares of each color,
I am using these for my scrappy blocks this month.
Judy is using 3 1/2" squares, so my blocks will be smaller.

Here is what I have so far:

My block


I made four blocks yesterday and played
a bit with them.
 

These are going to be fun!

Purple and green are taking over my "Hidey Hole"!

Happy Quilting!!

3 comments:

Libby in TN said...

Split 9-patch is such a fun block. So many ways to set them.

Marie said...

Le vert est une couleurs formidable,je l'utilise souvent,mais je n'arrive jamais a associer
avec le violet.
AmitiƩ
MC

Barb in Mi said...

Have fun with your split 9-patches - and hope you'll get rid of the snow soon... Yep, we have more than enough white stuff here in Michigan.