Blooming Nine Patch

I've shared here before my love of the Stack & Whack quilts but I also got hung up on making the Blooming Nine Patch quilts. They're in the book, Tradition with a Twist, by Blanche Young and Darlene Young Stone. This is the first one I made and it was a wedding gift to Liz, an attorney Vince works with. I'm never quite sure how they will turn out but Liz told me she liked red . . she gave me some specific decorator brand that she was doing in her house and this was as close as I could get. I can't even remember how I quilted it. I think it was made in 2001. The second one I made was for my friend, Sarah. She and I met in first grade! (She is OLD! :) We have been partners in crime for more years than I care to remember. Several years ago, Sarah went through a pretty heartbreaking divorce and I sent her this quilt. She has been such a good friend. We still talk often (thank goodness for free calls cell to cell!) I'll never forget one night when I was still living in Louisiana, I was so sick. I thought I was going to die (can you say wimp?) Sarah lived just a couple of blocks from me and our phone calls usually begin around midnight. She called and oh, I was such a wimp. My throat had never been so sore. In a few minutes, the phone rang again. She was on her way over with popsicles and dill pickles. I had never heard to try that combination for a sore throat. Can't remember if it worked but . . I obviously survived. That's a good friend to get out out at midnight, go to the convenience store on the corner and bring popsicles and dill pickles to a sick friend! The third one I made was for me. I was at Quilters Attic in Goodlettsville, TN one day and came across this purple/yellow fabric that I just had to have. I couldn't think of what to do with it but while walking around the shop, I thought of the Blooming Nine Patch and was able to choose all the fabrics right then and there! I wish the dark fabric was farther out and not so much in the center but I still like it. And, somewhere in this house there is a bag with another Blooming Nine Patch all cut out, to be made at some day in the future. I don't have a clue what the colors are . . haven't seen it in years!! What a fun house this is! :) Judy L.