My Turn to Leaf You Happy

I am so happy to say it is my day on this fun hop.  Autumn is my absolute favorite season.  I love the cooler temps, the great food and snuggling up in all those quilts I make.  Sow without further ado, here are my blocks.

The first thing I did was to pull a pile of fabrics that reminded me of fall.  I do not collect theme fabrics for the holidays.  I have bought one or two over the years, so I went with some color choices.  Then I spent a couple of weeks looking at them waiting...then it came to me: disappearing 9 patch.  I have long wanted an excuse to try this out for myself.

 First, I made a 9 patch block and just cut it into 4 squares.  I flipped them around and sewed them back together with the center orange block in the corners.  Hmmm, nice, I thought.

 Then, I tried to figure out placement to try and visualize where they would end up.  I couldn't really do it, so again I made the 9 patch, cut it into 4 squares and just flipped and spun until I was happy with the placement.  Very different, yes?

 Then I made a third one and thought "what if I chopped off the four corners instead, and rearranged them?"  This is what happened!  Pretty cool and only about 1/4-1/2 inch smaller than the other blocks.  Then I hung them on my block clothes line and there they stayed...until last Thursday when my daughter walked in and saw them.  "Wow what pretty fabrics.  What are you going to do with them?"  "They are for a blog hop and I just had to make the blocks.  Want me to make you something with them?"  "Yes please!"

 Sew I sewed them together with the diamond in the center, quilted them with straight lines and bound them with some dark brown that is almost all gone now.

                            And here you have my daughter's fall table runner.

 This is the back, pieced together with bits of the only fall fabric I have had in my stash.

                                                 Here is a closer look at it.

                                 On the picnic table.  Just perfect for fall.
Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the hop.  Here are the rest of today's lovely quilters and their works:

Wednesday 3

Plum and June

The Recipe Bunny

VroomansQuilts

It's Sew Kiki

PigTales and Quilts

Quilting fiesta

GrammieQ's

Nancy

Just Let Me Quilt

Selina Quilts
The Learning Curve~Quilts and Such

 

Thanks again to Cherry and Madame Samm.  Another stellar experience here.