Disappearing 9-patch

Somewhat of a giggle about this quilt block.  When I get a quilt, I normally note, the quilter, the name/theme of the quilt and the date it was given to me.  When I got this quilt, however, for the life of me, I couldn’t remember the name of the block.  I had broken, scattered, deconstructed and every other word except disappearing!

Got this on Saturday and only got to load it on Sunday.  The little one and her dad visited while mom worked and I put a mean pot of lentil soup on the stove with vetkoek to snack on whenever the hunger strikes in this cold.  I also made a pot of fudge for my grandson, I have not told him yet but being a sweet-toothed person, I am sure he’d enjoy it.

It seems as if this quilt took forever to finish, yes it was rather large but that was not my main obstacle.  As per routine, I clean house on Mondays and Tuesdays, my daughter asked if we could look after her little one from 10 to 11 am while she had another appointment.  While busy cleaning house the doorbell rang, the roof specialist to fix the roof, no prior notification, no appointment, nothing!  Hubby was not impressed but seeing that we wrote a rather demanding letter to the lawyers that did the sale basically giving them until 2 June to start delivering on everything agreed to in the sale contract, we didn’t want to put up too big of a scene as we wanted the hidden mistakes (by the sellers) to be fixed.

My daughter too arrived earlier than said with a rather sick little one and got a doctor’s appointment for her as well.  So, cleaning came to an abrupt halt.

With my daughter working the night shift, her husband brought the little one to us early morning on Tuesday until her mom got off work.

Quilting this beauty, therefore had to be done in between all these disruptions. Then I got 3 more quilts all the way from Kimberley and on Monday, 30 May, I had a quilter from Soutpan who phoned to ask if she could send a quilt and I officially had to start a waiting list.  With having pets and grandkids and not much storage space, I prefer not to have quilts lying around in the house.  I really need a couple of days without any interruptions.

I got the good news that my quilter friend who was hospitalised was released and back home today, wonderful to hear!

This quilt had a beautiful ombre border and although not visible in the photo, it had a sun with rays and clouds printed lightly on it, therefore I chose clouds as the free motion motif.

This is the completed top.