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I rarely do traditional quilts anymore, although I still love the process of working within a set pattern, seeing the pieces of fabric come together into a bigger pattern, and then adding the texture of the quilting stitches. Creating a traditional quilt is restful and relaxing. Creating an art quilt is dynamic and energizing, and often surprising and/or frustrating. Still, there are ways to work the familiar patterns of traditional quilting into a number of fiber arts projects. And I find the pattern I am most fond of is the hardworking 9-patch. It's simple to put together, can be played with in numerous ways, and has that nice, appealing tic tac toe grid.

In between some other, numerous unfinished projects I decided to take some samples of lovely cloth I had ordered online (see my link to Marsha Derse Cloth in the side bar) and make a basic hand stitched 9-patch.
But never one to resist embellishing I decided to employ the philosophy of Slow Cloth and add some hand embroidered accents.

From there I sat and stitched a few more 9-patch samplers while watching a movie on Netflix, all about 7" square. Once again, enjoying the process without a goal in mind. Eventually a goal will appear on the horizon.

And for those of you who participated in voting for your favorite cat painting the winner was Goth Cat with 5 votes, followed by Ginger Cat with 4 votes, Constructivist Cat with 3 votes, and Minimalist Cat with 2 votes. Blue Cat received no votes so I am taking him back to the drawing board, although I did play around with colour alteration in my Corel Draw program and Constructivist Cat was the easiest to manipulate.