Gypsy Wife: Section 9

This week we are working on Section 9 of our quilt. This section makes up the top left portion of our quilt, and you can see it pictured on page 30 of your pattern book.
There are 5 blocks to make this week, two focus blocks and three fillers.
Focus Blocks
PG 9: Hope from Hartford, make 1
Pg 17: Old Maid Puzzle, make 1

Filler Blocks
Pg 19: Pinwheel Block (Bordered) make 1, 6" finished
Pg 22: Square in a Square Block, make 2 -- 1 that is 2.5" finished and 1 that is 3" finished


Hope from Hartford: This block introduces a partial seam to us. We have to a few when we sew our quilt top together so this will be good practice.
First we need to construct the components of the block. I cut as the pattern states, if you are looking at the picture in your book of where each piece is going, I is the dark triangle, J is the stripe, K is the white triangles and the polka dot,  and L is the small square in the center. Be sure to stitch the K strip to the J triangle.
When you have all the components together lay it out at the pattern instructs. For the partial seam, I like to mark a little line on my square 1/4" from the edge, and than make sure I do not stitch past the line (in fact I usually stop a little before the line.) Than add each component as instructed, and that partial seam will get finished when you stitch the final piece in. You may need to fold your fabric out of the way a little on some parts to avoid catching it.



Old Maid Puzzle: we made one of the blocks for section 2, so this block should not be anything new. I chose not to go scrappy this time around and just used 4 colors total, pink for the big triangles, taupe print for the background, red for the four triangles that cut through the center, and green for the outer corner sections. Here is the link to the tips I made the last time we made this block.
http://chickenfeedquilts.blogspot.com/2019/01/gypsy-wife-section-2.html


Bordered Pinwheel Block: The instructions for this block take up the full first column on Page 19. I had some half square triangles already made so I used those to make my block go really quick, you could also use some of those triangles that we have set aside to make your pinwheel, and you can use all different fabrics or just a couple.

Square in a Square block: These are nothing new, but we do get to do a new size this time around so that is pretty fun. We need to make 1- 2.5" finished and 1- 3" finished.

That is it for this section, we only have one section left after this and than we can start cutting out our strips and assembling our quilt top!

Kayla