Welcome to Missouri Star Quilt Companies beginning block series, today we’re going to learn
how to make a nine patch.
Let me show you one right here, this square on the quilt is, each one is a different square
of fabric, but they’re all the same size and then you sew them together. It’s nine
little blocks, hence the nine patch.
I’m going to show you how to make an easy one with two strips of fabric, with two color
ways of fabric, and a fast strip piecing method so you’ll be able to make a nine patch really
quickly. It’s a very versatile block, one of the good old standards, so why don’t
you zoom up here close and we’ll get these sewn together.
Now when you buy a pattern allot of the terms might be different for some of these things.
This is called a strip set, so this is one strip set and we are going to sew these two
reds on the outside of the black and this is the second strip set and we are going to
sew two blacks on the outside of the red. So if you go over to the sewing machine, then
we’ll be able to begin.
Okay so here we are at the sewing machine and were going to sew a quarter of an inch
along the edge of
the red and black fabric.
Now this is another one of those squares where you want to always remember to press toward
the dark, so know if you join me at the ironing board I’ll show you how to do that.
Here we are at the ironing board, and we’ve laid our fabric down on the iron and we’re
going to set this seam which is done by simply pressing your iron on the seam on top, we
just pull that back and that seam just lays over and you get a nice seam.
For this strip set, we need to attach this black to the other side, so we’ll go back
to the sewing machine.
Alright, here we are sewing a quarter of an inch, right down the edge. Make sure you’re
lined up, and there you go. Alright now it’s back to the ironing board.
Now you can see we have the two strip sets ironed. The two black on the outside of
the red and the two red on the outside of the black. Now what we need to do is cut
these apart. We’re going to cut them in two and a half inch segments and pretty soon
you’re going to see this block come to life.
Okay, so now we’re going to sub-cut our strip sections in two and a half inch strips
and we’ll cut two of these. See where it shows the two and half inch mark, that’s
were we go.
You can measure with your mat or ruler, the ruler is a little more accurate. I was taught
using a mat and apparently according to some deer quilting friends of mine, that is not
the best way to cut.
Alright so here we are. Now because you have ironed these to the dark when you put
them together as you see right there, they will lay together so nice because they’re
all ironed to the dark and you’ll have your nine patch. So let’s go to the sewing
machine.
We're going to line these up and you’ll feel them nest right together there, they
just nest right together there. Put your quarter of an inch on. Make sure that lines
up again, and then we’ll put the other one on.
This is just a fun little block, and because you can strip piece it you can make a lot
of them at once, if you cut a strip width of fabric you’ll be able to make a ton of
them and pretty soon you’ll be done with your whole top
Now we’ve sewn this together and we’re ready to open it up, and again we’ll set
our seams and then we’ll just lay that over and we’ll flip this side around, and lay
that over and you have a nice little nine patch.
Isn’t that just adorable, you can use it in so many ways. This is just another block
on the beginning block series from Missouri Star Quilt Company. Thank you for being
here with me today, happy quilting.