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\"Piles<\/a>Okay, I exaggerated, but it certainly does seem at times as though it’s that many! I’m making a new quilt, and one of the steps is to make 140 little 9-patch blocks that measure 3.5″ unfinished — and that’s for the throw sized version of this pattern. As you may be able to tell, I’m coming down the home stretch on the 9-patches, and then I’ll be able to put them together with solid squares to make 28 of what the designer calls 49-patch blocks. Whew! I will say, though, that my lovely Bernina 790Pro makes doing this a pleasure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I exaggerated, but it certainly does seem at times as though it’s that many! I’m making a new quilt, and one of the steps is to make 140 little 9-patch blocks that measure 3.5″ unfinished — and that’s for the throw sized version of this pattern. As you may be able to tell, I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,217,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-5303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-piecing-2","9":"tag-machine","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1nx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4525,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/snails-trail-blocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":5303,"position":0},"title":"Snail’s Trail blocks","author":"Sandy","date":"June 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The quilt I'm working on needs sixteen Snail's Trail blocks, and my Bernina and I finished making those today -- yay! 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