Little Red

Woo-hoo, happy Friday all!!!  We finally had some rain!!!  We need more, but I will take it!  It was so nice not to have to water my flowers for once.

 I have a tiny finish of my own to share!! 🙂  A while back Kathie, of Inspired By Antique Quilts shared her wall of little quilts in her sewing room.  I am not going to lie, I have been obsessed or inspired 🙂 …either way…by this photo!!!  I LOVE it!!!  If you haven’t seen it, go immediately here.  This photo just makes me happy.  Now, I am on a mission to create some little quilts myself.  Thank you, Kathie!!  I went through my books and patterns to see what I had in the form of little quilts.  Let me introduce you to Little Red or as I refer to it as Lil’ Dumplin because it is so sweet…I could eat it!! LOL!

Seriously.  Is this not the cutest, sweetest little quilt??  It measures about 9 1/2″ X 11 1/2″.

I had quite the little photo shoot going.  I never play with the special effects in the photo software, but I think the next photo is supposed to be an antique type whatever.

The quilt is a pattern out of the book Nine-Patch Gatherings by Lisa Bongean and Carole Charles.  Available here.

This book is a treasure chest of gorgeous little quilts.  In the book, there are directions for this really cool way to make 9-Patch blocks.  From 2 squares you end up with two 9-Patch blocks, one negative and one positive.

So cool!!!!!  It is like a 2 for 1 deal!  Like having twins.  LOL!  FYI, these little 9-Patches finish at 1 1/2″!!!  Teeny tiny.  The book gives directions for 2 different size 9-Patch blocks.

I love this quilt because it is like instant gratification.  Once your 9-Patches are done, this little quilt goes together super fast!!!  Like if I have time to do it, anyone can do it!! 

Scooter was more than happy to be my assistant.  He did a lot of rearranging.  I told him to enjoy because he is going to be moving back with Kristin in a few months!!

All pieced.  Now to the quilting.  Yes, I loaded it on the longarm!!!  I should have taken a better pic because it looked a little ridiculous!! LOL!

I loved the diagonal lines so much, I almost just left it as is.  Then I decided to crosshatch the red squares.

And finished!!

The pattern called for a single fold binding, but I just went with a narrow (I cut my strips 1.75″) traditional double fold.  You can even see a peek in this photo of another little finish too. 🙂 

You can see how tiny the blocks are with a little spool of thread next to them!!

Little Red uses negative blocks, so I still have 12 positive blocks to make another little quilt up! 🙂

Hope everyone has a great weekend!