Little Girls Cot Quilt

 A friend asked me to make a second cot quilt for her grand daughter in little girl pinks.  I decided to use the disappearing 9 square pattern so I collected 9 different fabrics and cut them into 6" squares.  The size I used was 2 squares across and 3 down, therefore using 54 6" squares.

 Making sure that I had the dark pink fabric as the center square, I joined 9 squares together. I tried to make sure I had the same pattern of squares throughout.

 Once I had sewn the squares together I cut through the center of the middle of the nine squares twice, leaving me with a dark pink small square, two oblongs and a large square.  I then rearranged the pieces together so the dark pink squares were on an angle to each other and re-constructed the squares

 These are all the squares rearranged ensuring that they follow a pattern.  I placed the backing, wadding and the front of the quilt onto a table and pined them together.  This is the hardest part as the backing material tends to ride up and can get caught.

Here is the finished article.  I sewed a little butterfly in the corner and sewed around the squares in sequence.  I attached the border to the back by machining it and then stitched the border to the front by hand.  Very laborous work but worth every minute.  I love the finished quilt and it was received well.  My friend loved it.  The next one is for my grandson, for a single bed and will be in red, black and gold colours