I’ve got one more quilt on my Christmas to make list. I plan to head to Mom’s for a quilting weekend in late September, so that means I’ve got to get the top together by then. With that in mind, on the weekend, Burton and I sat down and started playing with fabric.

We have this lovely layer cake in a line called Chantrell. I needed something quick and dirty like the last top… and there’s just one such block I’ve been wanting to make for a while. It starts with a simple four patch.

Then you slice it up a bit…

Then you swap the sides out and turn the centre one turn

And sew it all back together!

And you have a disappearing four-patch!

Now… I love it, but it isn’t as quick and dirty as I hoped. Those four patches go quick, but slicing, dicing, and sewing the blocks back together is a fair bit slower. That said, I should be able to get them done in time. I have all the four patches together, so I’m going to try to do a block or two each night.