Pebbled Prairie QAL Week 2: Color A Nine Patches
Welcome to Week 2 of the Pebbled Prairie Quilt-Along ! This is my favorite week in any quilt-along, or in any quilt project really: the week we start to sew the fabrics together! I have all my squares cut out and today I'm going to show you my easy method for randomizing fabric placement and keeping all the pieces in the right places when sewing them together in nine patch blocks. The secret is the answer key in the back of a Sudoku puzzle book! First, arrange your squares into nine equal piles and number them. Each individual fabric should only be in one pile, but it's ok if one pile has multiple fabrics in it. For example, my pile 4 has a mix of three fabrics so the bird fabric will not be in every 9-patch. But, if I had the bird fabric in two different piles, then the bird would appear twice in the same 9-patch. Once the fabric is sorted, choose four squares from any answer key (I drew a pink box around the ones I was