Without a doubt our national anthem will be ringing out from coast to coast to coast today as we celebrate an extremely hot Canada Day; we're looking forward to enjoying fireworks over the Ottawa River this evening.
I always like to see if I can showcase a little red and white stitching in honour of our national celebrations and this year it's a selection of the scrappy
nine-patch blocks that I am hand piecing.
They aren't pure red and white, but close enough to count.
I'm trying to force myself to create combinations that are a little outside of my wheelhouse.
This is my inspiration. It's from Linda at
Koka Quilts and I was really taken with the border of larger blocks inserted amongst all of those scrappy nine-patches; mine would measure 3" finished. Subtle, yet effective. She has such a fun sensibility to her quilts!
I've got about two dozen
nine-patches made right now and think I need about that many again to make a QFS flimsy approximately 48" x 64". I'm planning for 30 blocks in the centre (she has 25) so I will need to adjust my math to make things work. I might also switch up that border with a single wild blue/green print that I have but I'll play with that once things get to the wall.
Happy Canada Day everyone!...M
