Deciding on a Design

Aunt Susan and I thought about this alot. As the squares started to accumulate we thought about the best way to use them. I was especially interested in having exactly 100 squares in the quilt.

So we decided on a 9 Patch design. This has larger squares consisting of 9 smaller squares. By incorporating a consistent center square into each of the larger squares, we would use 8 of the wish square contributions in each 9 Patch. 8 square x 12 (9 Patches) will give us 96 and then the remaining four squares will go in each corner. 100 Good Wishes! Since we are still collecting our final few squares and in the event we end up with more than 100, we have already decided we will use any extra squares in patchwork pillows.

After we settled on the 9 Patch design, we started looking at the squares we had already and decided we would group each of the larger squares by color. A graphic example of the final quilt design is shown in the upper right corner of the blog.

I posted a couple of the 9 Patch squares at the top (the browns and the light blues) so you can get the idea.

Still to be decided is how we will quilt the top after this all gets put together, so more to come on that.