It's a Finish!

 Another Nine Patch

No clever name comes to me for this one

78 x 78

Machine quilted on my DSM 

 It's basically a little Nine Patch within another Nine Patch  (or Puss in the Corner) with striped sashing.    I used 2.5 inch scraps to frame the little nine patches. 

 I used to participate in a quarterly 3 inch nine patch swap so had lots of those on hand. I still have a lot of them and am always looking for new ways to use them.  I think I've made five different quilts that used nine patches. 

 The quilt was inspired by a picture I saw of a Susan McDermott quilt in Quilt magazine. 

I quilted it with straight lines on the diagonal. I tried to quilt it so the little nine patches poofed out. 

I used a  100% cotton queen sized sheet from the thrift store for the backing. The tag was still on it - $2.  I was going to make a scrappy binding but couldn't decide on which scraps to use from the 2.5 scrap bin - they are all rather short. And I don't have many bright pieces in the leftover binding bin. So I used plain old red to match the corner stones. 

This was my goal #4

for 

Q4 Finish-Along 

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