Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing 9- Patch Flimsy

Hi, I am happy to share the completed flimsy of my Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing Nine patch baby quilt. It is just shy of 60 inches square. This will be a gift for my best friend’s niece whose baby is due at the end of October.

Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing Nine Patch

I am choosing the name Lions Roar! after one of the prints in the quilt. It has lion’s heads and says Lions Roar! all over the fabric. Or I could call it Lions, Tigers, Crocodiles Oh My!, there are no bears on the other printed fabric but there are crocodiles. I did cut some additional bright solid squares and white background squares in hopes of making a bit larger quilt. I made 39 nine patches and they cut down into 156 quarters. I only used 81 quarter blocks for this top as it used all of the main focus prints. This top is made using Kristy Daum’s tutorial for the modernized disappearing nine patch. Her initial layout in her tutorial used 36 squares and I just continued the pattern on with in each row across and started the pattern over again with row 7 to get my 9 rows of 9 blocks.

Lions Roar!

I caught my daughter’s sinus head cold this week, and just lost steam yesterday. The baby shower is today, but I hope to get the quilt completed yet today and will give to the family tomorrow. I am thinking that I will quilt diagonally across the blocks in white, and then add some accents of orange, green and brown in straight line stitching ??? (I have those 75 extra unneeded blocks that I can practice on as a sample first. ) Maybe a plain white all over grid quilting?? It all depends on things go while quilting on cold medicine.

Baby’s Name to Applique on Backing

I am going to applique the baby’s name on to the backing of the quilt. I have 4 sheets of Lite Steam – A- Seam 2  pressed to black solid fabric ready to have the letters traced and cut out from.

Quilt Backing Layout with binding

I am going to be piecing a striped background with a white center with the baby’s name appliqued in black. This row will be between two rows of green multi dot print fabric and then a row on each side of that of chocolate brown mottled blender print fabric. I will be making a striped bias binding. I had the green multi dot print in my stash, and also the left over striped bias binding fabric. I used the striped binding on another brown, green and orange baby quilt. It’s great to be able to shop for almost all of the fabric from my stash. I only purchased the 2 yards of brown mottled.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend. I will be linking my flimsy finish with Crazy Mom’s Quilts and Can I get a Whoop Whoop?

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley