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Three Six Nine

6/24/2023

 
Back when I was starting to design patterns, I did a quilt that combined 6", 9" and 12" sampler blocks as part of a block of the month for a local quilt shop.  It ended up being one of my favorite sampler quilts and the inspiration for the layout I am presenting today.

Did any of you participate in this BOM at Quilted Treasures in Rogers?  If so, I would love to see pictures of your quilts.
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Triple Play designed pieced and quilted by Kari Schell
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Triple Play Custom Set Layout
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Triple Play Strip Set Layout
Both of these layouts were covered in the Tech Know Quilters Sampler class.  Send me a note if you are interested in taking the class in July.  There just may be an open enrollment flash sale next week.  :)  So make sure you are on my e-mail list to receive information on this flash sale.

For my blog post today, I decided to create a quilt with 3", 6" and 9" blocks.  The beauty of this layout is that it is super simple to try out different blocks once the layout is built.  Let me know if you are as addicted to the concept as I am.

Three Six Nine Custom Set Quilt Design

Set up a custom set quilt with the center size of 51" x 12" if you wish to use my Three Six Nine quilt layout. 

​Or create your own layout.  You pick the size.
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Add a plain block to the quilt.  Make three copies.  Size one at 3", one at 6" and one at 9".  

Save the quilt -- to save the coloring of each of the blocks.
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Make sure to turn on Snap Block Position to Grid in the Quilt Grid Setup (this is under the Adjust tool).  Set the grid snap increments at 3".

Copy and paste copies of the blocks and place in the quilt worktable.  Fill the entire worktable.  I tried to create a fairly random placement -- but you could try something more symmetrical.

Add borders.  I chose to do a 1", 3" and then a binding of 1/2".
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Three Six Nine Custom Set Quilt Layout
Find blocks that would be easy to piece in a 3 x 3 grid.  Those will also work well in 3", 6" or 9" blocks.  Here were some ideas that I decided to play with..
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Default 9 Patch
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Default Friendship Star
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Default Ohio Star
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Arkansas Snowflake
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Eight-Pointed Star
Take a look in the EQ Library -- or Block Base+ for some other ideas for blocks for your quilt.
Watch the EQ8 video tutorial on how to design the quilt -- just using blocks from the library.
Here are my quilts using the five blocks shown above.  These were super fun to draft and would also be fairly easy to piece.  Maybe I will put this on my list for my next quilt retreat.
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Default 9 Patch Quilt
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Default Friendship Star Quilt
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Default Ohio Star Quilt
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Arkansas Snowflake Quilt
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Eight Pointed Star Quilt
I am looking forward to seeing your Three, Six, Nine quilts.  Let me know what block you decided to use.  And of course this could work easily with a different layout size.
Learning EQ Facebook Post for Three Six Nine Quilts

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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jan beckert
6/24/2023 08:51:39 am

Thanks, Kari! I'm sure this info will come in handy!

Sheela Churchill
6/25/2023 03:39:18 am

Thanks Kari,
Recently did some 10 inch blocks using the blocks from the EQ found it was quite easy to use.

One of them was a log Cabin block which was a spiral type I had so much fun creating it just applying to the easy draw.
That particular block I use FPP. Due to the complexity of the block.

I did this when I was away took the laptop with me 😉😊 .it was interesting when layout on the quilt layout in on point and on normal layout.

Also did an Ohio star as well and a variable star all on a 10 inch block size.

Doing them is certainly getting much easier as I use it more often but still needs more playing around with it as EQ has more bits on it now cannot to how those apply to blocks .

Your teaching has given me alot of encouragement with EQ

Sheela


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