Miss Mighty Midge: Part One: How to Sew a Disappearing Nine

It's time to put the spice back in sewing tutorials. So grab a machine and hold on to your material, ladies! It's time for a Disappearing Nine.

Part One:

It's important to remember that sewing is universal. Whether ADD... or OCD... sewing is for everyone.

ADD - Brittany

OCD - Brandy

1 - Juice Up Your Creativity

Start by arranging your material into blocks. Three Charm squares across and three Charm squares down.

2 - Get Ready... Get Pinned... Start Your Sewing Machine!

When you have a block of material arranged, start sewing the rows together.

Pin your Charm squares facing each other and sew a quarter inch from the edge.

Repeat this until you have sewn each of your three rows individually.

3 - It's Gettin' Hott in Here... So Iron All Yo' Rows!

Once your rows have been sewn, iron the seams in opposite directions like so:

Before

After

4 - Turn Your Rows Into Blocks

Sew each row together. Again, sewing a quarter inch from the edge.

*Don't forget to iron down your seams as you go! For the individual squares, the seams need to go in opposite directions but the rows on the whole block can be ironed the same direction (see picture above).

5 - Rearrange, Re Pin, Repeat!

Repeat steps one through four until all of your Charm squares are gone!

6 - Cut the ~~Cheese~~ ... I mean Block!

Now that your squares are nicely arranged and neatly sewed, it's time to make them "disappear!" Cut each block horizontally and vertically, like so:

7 - Design Your Nine

Your squares should now be cute and random. Once everything is cut, start placing them together to form the top of your quilt. Remember: Disappearing Nine Patters can be designed many different ways! Here's a few pictures to illustrate our genius: