Check Mates QuiltPDF Pattern This pattern can bee your new 'best mate', especially if you are a beginner! This clever design plays with the 9 patch concept not just in blocks, but also in panels and in the overall quilt and dimensions! I originally called this quilt the "9 x 9 x 9" because it was rows of 9 blocks that are all 9" in size. The qualities of the Check Mates woven collection offer a wonderful opportunity to enhance the checkerboard 9 patch. The generous

while the pattern recommends specific fabric placement

The solids we chose to play alongside Monika's prints emulate her groovy palette and we love the blocks of bird forests that appear as your travel through the quilt

This pattern works well with fat quarters

and gardens at every turn

A discount bundle of two 24" circular knitting needles in US sizes 6 and 7

over 1 yard

The charming stack up of the flower blocks connecting their stems on point creates a field of blooms as a worthwhile reward after sewing very many petals

20 page PDF pattern booklet

a stitch guide and a needle (because who wants to wait

Selection of four 1/2 yard cuts of Ruby Star Society basic fabrics

and therefore “lines” that happen in this version

Optional Acrylic Templates with added 1/4" seam allowance for needle-turn applique are available here