9 Patch Basics - Michael Miller Fabrics' Making it Fun #82

Join Rob Appell and learn some great foundational information on the construction of the tradition 9 patch quilt block. BUT - you know Rob, he has to take it to the next level even with the basics, so you will see strip piecing and less than traditional block layout as well.
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[@JanetMorgan-vb2dy]

This is so much easier than our grandmothers 😊

[@anncantlin9710]

I love the versatility of the nine patch

[@angelahopson9604]

Love the 9 patch. I like adding the sashing and corner blocks in mine and arrange them so that you see diamonds in them

[@darlaholmes624]

Ever since COVID my daughter has been home from school. She took over my sewing room as her bedroom. My bedroom now serves as my bedroom, my office and my sewing room.

[@denisefraser5317]

I gave up my sewing room for my daughter and now I just have a kitchen table to work on. :)

[@JanetMorgan-vb2dy]

My sewing room isn’t big enough because it hast to be in n living room and kitchen space together. I’m in a next generation home with our son and his family but I do have it as my sewing room. That’s why it’s not big enough but I am thankful I have one! Thank you for all your tips 😊

[@laurafeldhans4785]

Thanks Rob for doing the basics I really enjoy 😊 your energy and enthusiasm. Please keep making basic skills videos with your Beautiful Basics Fabric.... My sewing room could never possibly be large enough!

[@JanSwan]

You always make learning new quilt tips & designing sew interesting & fun! Always love basics... best foundation to satisfying creation. Many Thanks! Keep up the great shares!

[@KarenCashatt51]

Hey Rob nice haircut. Most of us love the basics and yes sometimes with a twist. Great video.

[@debramcdorman7899]

Love your videos! Thank you.

[@melissapark7470]

I'm a kitchen table quilter. I have comondeared a computer table recently from my mini studio in the living room. I sew love it!

[@cecilianyberg4941]

I started in a corner of our living room, with a table and a sewing machine a couple of bags of fabrics, then I move to the laundry room with a shelf and a small closet, then a move to one of our rooms after if was not use anymore as a bedroom, the smallest of our house and still is small! I have now 4 shelves, 1 complete closet, cutting table and two working tables, bellow those more space to keep things...the reason? Well, I am learning many things and I have a lot of projects going on and I try to finish all of them, but there is always the need of buying some more fabrics or material, more lamps, cutters, and so on! Your video was great and gave new ideas :)))

[@dianeboudreaux8201]

Many thanks for tips on nine patch. Enjoyed the video. looking forward to trying it.

[@rncommercial]

My sewing room is what used to be the room where my home computer, dogs and guinea pigs lived, along with a small table for sewing. We said good-bye to our last puppers this summer and moved the g.p. crate & home computer to my son's room (he's in rez @ uni). I am extremely lucky to continue to work, so temporarily, half the room is WFH office. I garment sew as well so my cutting table is large. I sometimes just set it up in the hall/entranceway. It seems no matter how large a space, it is never big enough as I am a "spreader". Love your videos. Oh how I wish I had your energy!!!!

[@lindalosier5989]

The nine patch is my favorite block. It's simple to make and there are so many variations of it. I never get tired of nine patch quilts.

[@dianagrant9479]

Hey Rob, do I have enough room in my sewing room? Yes, I do. I have enough space for my needs. If I wanted a long arm sewing machine, I would have to give up my 4x8 ft cutting/work table but I could/would have room for a mid-arm like a Handi-quilter. (Please feel free to gift me one). If I were a fabric designer & had bolts & bolts of fabric maybe not. But I could figure something out. Since watching Karen Brown's organizing series with designated zones, I do have more efficient space. To sew in. I highly recommend her videos. My area of "pain" if you will is what to do with my scraps? I like Bonnie Hunter & Lori Holt's methods of organizing but I'm a fat quarter collector and not much on yardage. Though in this past year of pandemic having yardage kept me sane. My batting is on a closet rod in my sewing room closet. My fabric is in designated bins by size. I kind of like Megan fron Tiny Orchard Quilts method of organizing. But I feel like I'm an odd duck. I like 12" blocks, 3" strips & 6" squares but playing in a playground where everyone else is using 5", 2.5"strips & 10" squares makes me uncertain as I haven't figured out MY way. More than you wanted to know right? See ya.

[@jeancarter4163]

There is never enough room the bigger your area the more quilting stuff you need right!😀

[@anncantlin9710]

I have a 18 x20 sewing room with two sewing machines in their own cabinet with the ability to put machine down and give me more flat surface.a large cutting. Table plus my cabinets holding,y books galore, shelves with my boxes of fabric and cabinets of fabric, plus drawers of fabric, the more room I have the more fabric I buy. I could quilt for the next 5or six years and not go to the store because I buy in bulk. Crazy woman🤪

[@tearose3763]

When did easy get hard, I just finished Lori holts grandmother’s flower garden… now I’m screwing up nine patches. Thank you for your help!❤ happy valentines 💝 day

[@gailrodgers3079]

First time seeing your video. I have seen many other videos and I cringe as see some of he video hosts cutting their fabric, some using the lines on their cutting mats instead of carefully measuring with their ruler. I love strip quilting and scrap quilting.I started my first quilt in 1968 and finished it in time to take to college in 1973. I had no idea what I was doing and back then there wasn't much in the way of quilting instructions or books.I did enjoy your show. Thank you.

[@jadediablo965]

You are so awesome dude! thanks for sharing your professional experiences!

[@NaomiGarcia]

This was so helpful!! My sewing room will never be big enough...😋

[@ginanearftworth4404]

I have a folding table I set up in my living room to sew on. I don't have a kitchen/dining room table. The bigger problem in my sewing space is 3 cats!

[@moemoelhman3872]

Yes, the cats do like to "help" sew.

[@rosepaul9681]

I feel your pain. ; )

[@susantreibs6593]

I have a small sewing room. If I need more room I use a bed with a large cardboard mat, and sometime the living room floor. So that makes my whole house a sewing room/house???

[@susanrichtarcik5672]

Wow, I just love watching you. Have used your tips several times. Thanks for making it FUN

[@valeriesuttonpayne7413]

Last year I decided I wanted to try quilting. I live in a two bedroom townhouse now. My daughter is in the second bedroom. ( The good news is we each have our own bath). I moved my room around and I made a sewing area on one wall. Not ideal but I’m working with what I have, necessity being the mother of invention. I feel so good sitting down at my machine to sew after a 35 plus year hiatus.

[@paddyanne2024]

Its a wonderful hobby! Don't forget about shelf space ABOVE your bedroom door - good for storage boxes for fat quarters, supplies, etc. Have fun!

[@christiewright6137]

Lots of good information. Thank you!

[@jenniferpatrick6582]

thank you, I could see what you were talking about. It changes the whole quilt.

[@tearose3763]

😂😂😂10.5x11.6 with a 6x5 closet.I need about 20x20 that would be awesome. It’s because I live in a Kansas ranch on a cattle ranch🤦🏻‍♀️😳 stinks because I grew up in mission hills Kansas and Laguna beach California. Now beach house was a small cottage a few blocks from the beach but my other part of growing up was in 10,000 sf 10 bedroom homes in super swanky Kansas. Something tells me no matter the size somehow our rooms would still be too small. No I’m fine, I’m teasing I’m blessed I have a dedicated space. Love ya Rob love your show….follow the yellow brick road. Go chiefs!

[@user-wd1le2ne5u]

Enjoying your video.

[@paulalee4028]

Love your show!

[@belindapittard1654]

You've filled in a lot of the blanks for me - I am self taught, but firmly believe I've learnt more in watching your videos in the last few days than I did in reading books the past few years. Thank you, Rob.

[@lizreynolds4554]

Awesome thanks 😊

[@marylouisetidd6926]

Thanks for doing these video you asked about sewing rooms not enough space I drive truck and have everything I own for sewing in truck I set up a table in the box of the truck love the quilt as you go method because of my space if weather is to.hot or to cold then I have 100 inch bunk with a table but my view changes everyday 12 more states and I have quilted in every state

[@ellahallbert6729]

My sewing/cutting/pressing space is an 8' folding table. I live in a very small studio apartment.

[@peggyford8120]

I am in the process of switching my sewing room with my front room because of size. I live by myself so it isn’t critical to have a designated front room I may continue to store my fabric in the current sewing room but set up all my machines in the front room...sewing machine, embroidery machine, serger and hopefully a sit-down mid-sized quilt (long arm) machine in the near future.

[@phylham1565]

I'm considering the same thing. I live alone too and have a nice sewing space right now but I too don't need the front formal area as it is. Hope it works for you. Enjoy your new space.

[@barbmckinlay3400]

My sewing room is so full of boxes I sew at my kitchen table. Can’t wait til next week. I love 9 patch.

[@karenbell7393]

My sewing room is my table in my RV...as I am a full time RVer, pace is at a premium. My fabric stash takes up valuable storage space, and I have to get very creative with my quilting space. But, I love living in my RV, and I love quilting; so I make it work just fine !

[@paddyanne2024]

Love your videos': descriptions, camera work, and confidence. Thank you!

[@thenorthroom3435]

I don't have a sewing room yet! My sewing room is the dining room table. So it is both very big and not big enough all at the same time. Love your videos!

[@darcisavelli546]

Those colors look really pretty together.🙂

[@StitchingDeb]

I have room to fill and then room to always clean - straighten - and PUT AWAY! lol! I loved this lesson, Rob! Keep them coming :)

[@Stoffmonster467]

Great colour combination! I would never have done it.

[@Kimartman]

My sewing room will never be big enough until I stop buying more stuff lol

[@memere4137]

Great job, simplifying the nine patch...thank you from Innisfil Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@lesa6399]

Another great tutorial, Rob! Another great reason to buy more fabric- I’m hoarding before my soon-to-be retirement! My small space is in my bedroom & ive managed to label which quilt i want to make from which fabric but am running out of storage space!!! Lol

[@paulalee4028]

I just found you and love your instructions. I am an old sewer but never made many quilts except for rag quilts. So thank you for your wonderful instructions.

[@terrifaust4725]

I gave you a 👍 Rob but wanted to give you a ❤ too! I really enjoy your videos and the colorful fabrics and your enthusiasm. Have a great day!

[@jmurphy7192]

I carved out a nice 8’ x 16’ sewing space from a basement storage room! Lucky to have 2 egress windows, so lots of light. Also added 3 4’ led light strips and a ceiling fan to make it more my space. Have room for 2 sewing machines, a large (albeit folding) cutting table, a nice pressing station, and 4 bookcases for fabric, batting, books and yarn storage. Still need to use the kitchen table to baste anything larger than a wall hanging. Can’t wait for the next video and see what else you’re going to do with the 9-patch blocks!

[@towinbuddy]

We moved our stuff out of the master bedroom and that’s my sewing room. Our other smaller room is where my bolts of fabric go with all my tubs of yarn

[@karoliyer4860]

I just love your color choices Rob.... and that turquoise will be really sharp in there....😄👍

[@judytyler1870]

I love your videos! This one came out right when I needed it. I am starting a simple 9 patch so seeing both your techniques and your magic design wall is helpful. Apparently, when I leave my sewing room, I just walk away so every sewing day starts with moving things and putting them away! Today, the room is a total mess but I decided to sew some binding strips before the work. My sewing area is about the size of a single car garage but it is in the basement. I love the size but hate the lack of light!

[@dianagrant9479]

I would like better lighting as well. Have enough space just not enough lighting.

[@andreamarie288]

Enjoy your videos and your enthusiasm! My sewing room is in the dining room and I’m sure I’ll need more space soon. Just need to add a design wall.

[@mimiwilson3810]

I really have no excuse for having so little space. Hahahaha except I just don’t feel like going upstairs and setting up a whole big sewing room. It is just my husband and I in a 2700 square-foot four bedroom house. The only reason I answered today’s question because my husband overheard the video and said “that man is calling you out and he don’t even know you ha ha”. 😂

[@susanblack1894]

I love this one, so easy to follow thanks 😊 ☘️ Oh almost forgot, Yes I do need a little bigger Sewing room ! For more fabric, and a Design Wall 😍

[@irisglasspoole2350]

Another great tutorial Rob. I have the smallest bedroom in our home for my sewing room. I have a 17x23 cutting board which sits on a top that also includes my ironing space. I have got a cupboard and drawers underneath as well as a wall cabinet. The opposite wall has my sewing machine and table. I am always moving stuff from one place to the other to be able to cut then iron etc etc. I would love a huge room but that will never happen.

[@annbarth7358]

I claimed a bedroom for my sewing room after my oldest one got married. It's great having a designated room but not well organized (yet). Having 2 desks and 3 sewing machines takes up lots of room. Love the 9 patch units, so versatile, excited to see your next video to see what you do! I have an idea....

[@noraleewells5796]

What is your design wall made of? I need one of those! Enjoyed you 9 patch.

[@SoulsJourney]

I have a room but my sewing machine is on a child's desk, and I have to go out to my dining room to use that table to cut on. Lots of running back and forth! Maybe I shouldn't complain about that. Quarantine has been so sedentary I need to move more. LOL

[@Stoffmonster467]

10 pounds😬

[@myralittle7352]

Wondered where you went to, love your videos, I we bit of investigating got me here 🥰

[@TerrieJohnstown]

Sewing room? LOL! Machine is on dining room table; cutting is done on the island between kitchen and dining room; ironing either on a wool mat on dining table or with ironing board beside me at machine so I don't have far to go between stitching! I wish I had an extra room!

[@debbiewood2675]

I have no sewing room!! Have to do my sewing in the living room! Daughter and 4 grandchildren and my brother live with me.

[@nancyruth2008]

My sewing room is my laundry room...my ironing board is the same old one I've always had so not square...my cutting mat is in the kitchen. Not enough room for it all? You bet! But I can use the exercise so walking from room to room is ok.

[@bloempje903]

Hi, love your cramped work space. My space has been reduced after a burst water pipe in the room I was using for quilting. My sewing area is now the 45" round table in the dining area. Fabric is piled in the chairs and under the table, so I'm sewing strips, scrappy quilts, and mug rugs. Have almost finished a 65X55 coin stack quilt top. Have no idea where I will quilt it. Repairs are being made, but in this apartment complex there were at least 5 water breaks. Thanks for your fun program and colorful projects.

[@doltonmurray1625]

I used to sew in my laundry room in my basement. The washer and dryer were long enough to lay out fabric to cut and later put a fold up ironing board on. I had fluorescent lighting so it was bright enough. But it still felt dingy and was sometimes damp. Now I am in the process of taking over the guest room. Anyone need a double bed? Lol

[@petmomful2260]

Rob, please do a video in which you play the guitar! My sewing room is spacious now, because I took over almost the entire finished basement. It used to be full of teenagers hanging out and playing pool. Now they all have homes of their own. But I started out at the kitchen table many many years ago.

[@mamakaka73]

I have no sewing room. I use the kitchen table... I just need to make sure there's no leftover ketchup on the table before I start lol

[@mimiwilson3810]

Same same. Haha

[@karenraabis5296]

I have a sewing room but I love to sew at my kitchen table!

[@ritamckenna-cohen8075]

Same 😀

[@petmomful2260]

Haha, been there done that! Once I even sewed my t-shirt that I was actually wearing, into my quilt.

[@hergranny1386]

I have fabric everywhere! My sewing room is adequate, but looks a little overloaded with fabric.

[@elizabethlusher9667]

My original intent was to have our guest room double as a sewing room but now I'm getting into quilting the sewing stuff has moved to the big unfinished basement. I have all the room in the world down there!

[@dianaconrad5102]

At the moment my sewing "room" is in my parents dinning room. They both have dementia and I had to move in as full time care giver. Some of my supplies are here and some are still at my house 7 miles away. Every time I think I have everything I need here I remember it is at my house lol.

[@Sheila-kr8jr]

I have two machines, a 25-yr old Shark and a newer Babylock Anna. The Anna is set up in my dining room so I have the table and the overhead light, but I don't have the storage. The Shark is set up on an old treadle base in my family room, and I have NO storage there, except for the drawers. I keep bins of fabric in the attic and bring down what I need for a project, and I have to clean up the dining room at the holidays. The Shark gets used for quick jobs like mending, or sometimes piecing, and the Anna gets used for anything I need space to spread out. The Shark is heavier and has more stitches than the Anna, though, so maybe I should switch them? I am still waiting for the oldest kid to move out of the house so I have his room for my sewing room!

[@darcisavelli546]

I will have a bigger sewing room in 2 years, that is when my son goes off to college! LOL I will turn my small sewing room into his room when he comes home to visit!

[@Ldsks7591]

I am lucky in that I have a room but it's not strictly for sewing. I do weaving, needlework, scrapbooking and other things. So there isn't enough room for each. When I need to do the quilting after completing the top I used several folding tables in my family room.

[@kraftymadestitches5603]

my master bedroom is now my sewing room , great light and plenty of room for my too large stash

[@karenraabis5296]

I have a sewing room but I have a spare bed in there for visitors. I would love to get rid of the bed lol

[@paddyanne2024]

If you have a closet in that room, maybe make the closet a "mini-studio" space, with a fold up table top. :)

[@suecash2968]

My sewing area is on a three season porch that is the main entrance into the house. So I try to keep it organized. A big plus is the wonderful natural light,

[@robertadesantis7532]

I don't have enough room because I have too much fabric. LOL. and not enough time to do everything I want to make.

[@dawnmason9558]

My sewing room is also the spare bedroom. It is only a small single room anyway. I use it as storage for my Cricut maker & vinyls plus PS4, monitor, sizzix plus Printer & laundry drying room. I actually sew on the dining table. To be honest if I had a 3 bedroom sewing house it would still not hwve enough room cos we expand to fill what we have.

[@peggycox1378]

Half of the kitchen table for setting up the sewing machine and pushing the machine back for cutting and ironing and moving the machine back when done to sew. Small living quarters in a senior citizens complex.

[@elizabethboger9424]

I have a huge sewing room. I love it and sew often in between being a care giver. I do wish it was more organized, I just can’t figure out how to do it. I have enough fabric that I could open up a store, but it is everywhere.

[@debraclogston9379]

encourage. yeah

[@tearose3763]

Lol am sitting here making corner stones!

[@anitahaecker8113]

A few years ago my mother in law came to live with us as her dementia demanded special care for her. We gave up our master bedroom suite so she could have her own space. We moved upstairs to a loft bedroom. As we live in a dome home, it was like camping out WITHOUT pesky bugs. LOL Am I lucky, or what!? The master bedroom is now my sewing room. BTW, I suppose rooms are like purses. The bigger the space, the more stuff you can't seem to live without. 😉

[@Kimartman]

You are absolutely right

[@morganosborne9258]

I use a corner of my bedroom. Its rough on the OCD, but better than not being able to quilt. 😁

[@irenamangone]

So do I. I share a house with family.

[@shavonneerlandson6417]

I have a 5 foot table and 1 cupboard in the spare room. Trying to keep tidy so I can work well.

[@simonecarvallhoartes2614]

👍👍

[@johncinj]

I have a very nice size sewing room, but it still isn't big enough! Or maybe it just isn't efficient enough. A good set of shelves and cabinets instead of mixed up dressers, shelves, and project boxes (and an old kitchen table) might make a lot more room. Never giving up my stacking project boxes though!!

[@carolynkauppila483]

My sewing room is my bedroom. Definitely not enough room. And never in order. I have decided when I think of it as sleeping in my sewing room, the mess causes me less anxiety than the thought of sewing in my bedroom.

[@charlenemiller9784]

Yes I have to share my work from home office with my sewing quilting space, and it not enough room.

[@kathymarlowe2164]

Instead of sewing up one side and down the other to keep your strip from bowing I keep my strips as straight as possible the entire time I am pressing and I don’t end up with bowed strips. I have even taken to drawing straight lines on my ironing board to aid me in keeping them lined up straight.

[@maureenbaron7992]

Bedrm#3 has 10'frame w/21 Qnique pro....have 2 crawl under frame 2 get 2 backside. Juki TL18 & DX2000, 2 pieces of furnit're keep it cramped. Bedrm#2 queen bed = design wall. My Utility rm = cutting area.

[@maureenbaron7992]

Pieced coco star. Gonna E2E it w/QCT & eClipse stars' centers. Made an add'l bigger scrappy w/leftovers w/brdrs 4 both, 1 sham, 1 20" pillow & now dn 2 a sm pile of scraps.

[@lindastarzenski8770]

My rooms are two spare bedrooms. One has 3 embroidery machines and one sewing machine. The other has two tables. I was supposed to use 1 table for cutting and the other for scan an cut plus heat press. But the had to go on opposite tables, then of course I have my laptop, kam snap press and snaps, sawgrass printer, regular printer, closets full of fabric, bins with supplies. I wanted to use the garage and have shelves on one side, a window put on the other side, cutting table in middle and machines on one side. Hubby said no. ☹️

[@darcisavelli546]

What material do you have on your design wall to make the fabric stay on it?

[@darlahardy3386]

Does he ever answer questions? I'm new to watching his videos. I think what he has on his wall is felt stretched tight. I will work well but I like the fabric that has the measured squares best. I can't see straight. If I have the pictures on my wall the way they look straight everybody comes in and comments on how crooked they are and fixes them. When they leave I straighten them all because to me they look crooked. My husband used to show me straight with a framing square and that helped but now I'm a widow so now I have crooked pictures. This is why the fabric with the measured squares work best for me

[@lizagervais8621]

My sewing area is a small area of my bedroom where it competes with other hobbies. Also, the table is against a window and the cats love to sleep in cardboard trays (from canned cat food) on my table.

[@OldSchoolLPsGames]

My two cents on the "up one row and down the other" sewing.... it helps disguise when people stretch one strip more than the other. But as Rob says, if your stitching is good, there really isn't a need.

[@dianeboudreaux8201]

No, i do not have enough room in my sewing room because I don't have a complete room for my sewing or art painting. so, I have to use a corner of my guest rooms.

[@smileyvivian1345]

I don’t have enough room in my sewing room because 3m x 4m looked really big on the house plan when we built but put the cupboards and benches in and way to small.

[@tinayoung4019]

Hey Rob! My sewing room is too small because I use it as the all around resource room. I do paper, paint, and fabric crafting and then use it as an office. What's the name of your magic app again? I think that's a great trick!

[@anitabrantley5202]

Mine just needs to be cleaned up and organized.

[@micheleharrison5696]

My sewing "area" is carved from an office. I am slowly converting this office into a sewing space.

[@nadinekekauoha5102]

Use what you have

[@andreareed9219]

I have a sewing room 1o x11just the way I wanted its pink and white but now I asked my husband if we could convert the master bedroom into my sewing room I just don't have enough space LOL