The Glories of The Simple Nine Patch Quilt

 

 

Ah, The joys of a simple nine patch! Sometimes you just want to sew and not think! and this was one of those times. I promised you some instructions for making this quilt so here we go!

Here is a link to the PDF for basic layout and yardage requirements:

Simple Nine Patch Irish Chain By Sister of The Divide

 

You will need approximately:

 

1 1/8 yards of 44" wide fabric in your color choice for the nine patch and and extra 1/2 yard for binding.

2 3/4 yards of 44" wide fabric in your background color choice

4 1/2 yards of backing fabric

 

(these are estimates, I used scrappy bits and mixed them all up)

 

If you are working from scraps or a variety of fabrics, like I did, then cut your colored fabrics into 2 1/2 inch strips. It's perfectly okay to use a jelly roll.

 

Cut several 2 1/2" strips from your background fabric, I used Kona Cotton White for this quilt. Now you will want to stitch together strip sets as shown below. If you are going scrappy, don't agonize over what to put together, stick them all in a bag and just pull out strips and stitch. If you pull out two of the same, put one back and pull out another. You will stitch several sets together, alternating as below, blue, white, blue and then create another set of strips sets with white, blue, white.

 

 

 

 

Take your strip sets and cut across them to create 2 1/2" strips like below:

 

 

You should have a stack of strips with blue on each end and a stack of strips with blue in the middle. You will use two of the first stack and one of the second stack to create your nine patch. 

 

 

 

You will need to stitch 50 nine patch blocks for this quilt, if you want a larger quilt, make more blocks.

 

You will now stitch these nine patch blocks to your solid background blocks, alternating every other row to create the "chain".

 

 

Bind and quilt as desired. I used 2 1/2" strips to create my binding for this quilt. The quilt pattern is called Dawn's Block by Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio.

 

 

This was a lot of fun to make, it's easy, it doesn't take a lot of brain power and there is something so endearing about an old fashioned Irish Chain Quilt. Hope you will enjoy making one soon. Come visit us on Facebook at Sister of the Divide and on Instagram at SisterofTheDivide1. See you in the Funny Papers!