Split Nine Patch

So I finally got around to making a quilt for my mom. I've been wanting to do so for a few years now but I had to search long and hard for the pattern that would be just right. I made a decision shortly before November to use a pattern called Split nine patch. a couple of days later I went to the fabric store and picked out 17 different cream colored prints and 10 different green colored prints. Added to that was one brown print to define the borders. All of this fabric choosing was limited to 15 minutes as I had another commitment right after.

I began by making about 400 of these triangle pieces sewn together and then I had to iron them all open to even have a half of a chance of the corners lining up in most places.

Then I made these blocks ending up with about 200 or so. I had to pick out so many different fabrics in the same family of colors so that each block didn't look identical.

I was able to get it all put together sometime around Thanksgiving time (which was when i had originally planned to give it to her) and then I put it on the frames, and had to quickly quilt it in one week so that I could take it with me when I went to my grandmothers funeral a week or so before Christmas. I gave it to her there at the church as I was headed for the airport and back to my family. It was a fun quilt to make and even though there was a lot of fabrics involved it wasn't too bad. Had I not been so pressed for time I would have taken a little more effort to make sure that no two alike fabrics where touching but I gave up on that after getting the first row of squares sewn together.

I plan to get a full sized picture the next time I go home when there is enough room to lay it out on her bed.