Showing posts with label 9patch block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9patch block. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Starting Patchwork with my 'Free' Fabric

Well i've now started to get a few of my free fabric samples delivered and have more still to come. I'm quite impressed with the size of some of these samples - great for getting crafty with the biggest ones are about A5 size (I've got a few peices of silk, velvet and leather in there as well which is nice:

These are some of the first delivery of free fabric samples i've already cut up to start working with:

and my first 2 patchwork blocks - be gentle with me - they are my first proper sewing project and they are all being hand sewn

I am doing what is called 9patch's here and due to the small sizes of fabric samples i'm working with i'm keeping the patches quite scrappy and unmatching - I did try to get quite a lot of neutral colours and blues in my sample requests - so hopefully it will have a few common colours running through it.

I've not decided yet on whether to make a quilt or something smaller - so for now i'll just make up a load of patches and then decide.