Brendan & Tiffany Sullivan

I was pretty productive this week with Jeanette’s Little Red Riding Hood quilt. Woohoo!

Once I had all of the squares cut, I sewed them into strips of three.

strips!

Sixteen of the strips have a red gingham square in the center, which became the center for the nine patches.

nine patches galore!

The next step was to cut my nine patches into quarters so that I would have a total of sixty-four blocks.

nine patch pressed and on cutting mat

first cut

second cut

When I made up the strips for the nine patch, I was careful about my fabric placement. That way, only certain squares are halved, and the super cute prints (owls, Little Red, the forest, and its creatures) would remain whole. I wanted the red gingham to be a snappy little square, hence its placement in the center of the patch.

I finished cutting all of the nine patches and the blocks are now ready to be arranged!

all of my blocks!

Lest you think I’m awesome, I got the pattern idea for this quilt from one of the blogs I subscribe to, Obsessively Stitching. This lady is awesome and did a quilt-along tutorial on her blog. I didn’t participate because I was working on “Saint Brendan.” Here is the arrangement of the blocks that I will be following.

Love,

Tiff

P.S. I got all specific with how I’m doing this in case you wanted to know, Nette. Otherwise, just enjoy the eye-candy of that delicious fabric.