1 - Double 9-Patch Surprise MYSTERY

Wendy Lemmon

Friday, September 2  All Day

If you've never participated in a mystery quilt, now's your chance!  Lots of fun and you should be able to finish it in class!

Here's an idea of fabric choices.  I chose my border fabric and then pulled my fat quarter colors from the border.

Fabric Selection

Double Nine Patch requires these fabrics:

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Background fabric - 1 yard.

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your fancy or calls out to you from your stash is fine. Your background should

have good value contrast (light vs. dark) with your Fat Quarters.

It doesn’t matter whether your background is light or dark. Whatever strikes

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There’s quite a bit of the background, so choose a fabric you like.

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backgrounds for this quilt are solids, or large, soft prints, and tone on tones.

Do not choose a directional print, a stripe or plaid. Examples of good

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9 Fat quarters.

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Select 9 FQs that coordinate with your background fabric.

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pinks.

They can all be the same color – say nine different greens or nine different

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repros, or nine different orientals, or nine different dinosaur fabrics, or nine

different pastels.

They can be different “theme” fabrics. Examples include: nine different 30s

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might try:

If you find choosing fabric for your quilts challenging, here’s a technique you

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Choose a background fabric.

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Find the

the colors that were used to print the fabric.

Look at the selvedge where the manufacturer’s information is printed.registration marks. These small round dots are samples of

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marbles, and small-scale prints that “read” that color. By using the

registration marks, you’re pretty well guaranteed to have fabrics that

work well together.

Select your FQs in these colors. Good choices are tone-on-tones,

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Inner border - 1/3 yard or FQ:

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This is your narrow, “accent” border.

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quilt may need.

This is a good place to introduce a little spark of a different color that your

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Outer border and binding - 1 1/4 yard:

I like to use a dark fabric as an outer border since that gives your eye a “frame”

for your quilt. But that’s simply a matter of taste. Your outer border might be a

color selected from your background fabric. It can be the same color as your FQs

or a different color.