It's Design Wall Monday. See more design walls on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts blog.
On my design surface are pieces and parts for Humble Quilts' annual Doll Quilt swap. I have wanted to recreate an antique 9 patch quilt I pinned several years ago, and this small scale quilt is a great place to try it out. The alternate square is a stripe arranged in different directions, quilt is circa 1880 per the description on 1stdibs (sorry, I am unable to link the URL). My version will be very scrappy whereas the original quilt used two squares of two different fabrics and plain muslin for the remainder of the 9 patch.
I dug through my messy box of leftover CW pieces and parts but ended up having to cut most of the 2" squares from larger scraps. The 9 patches will be 4.5" by my figuring. The red shirting stripe has been in stash a long time; I'm happy to have a worthy place to use it. My swap partner is in Canada so I'll need to get this stitched up and quilted in the near future. The antique was hand quilted in a crosshatch. I will likely machine quilt mine, depending on time.
Meanwhile, more masks went out the door today....
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