You will always be stitching a circle and a half, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stitching, so the double stitching is never on the same side. Using a 1 1/2″ circle and starting on the horizontal line even with the edge of the 9-Patch, stitch 6 circles. Make the line long enough to intersect with the line in the adjacent border forming a square corner. Mark the lengthwise center of each border. You may want to review Month 3 Alice, can you add a link to Month 3 here? as you will stitch the same type of design in the first border of this block. In Month 3, the outside border was stitched with circles. The more advanced center will look like this. Use the black lines on the rulers to determine if the placement is correct and that you are going to be forming a circle. The orientation of the ruler is the same as the top row. The final row will overlap the row just stitched and the bottom row. When the designs overlap they should form a circle. Keeping the ruler in the same direction as the bottom stitched row, place the ruler between the lines indicated. Mark 4 horizontal lines on the 9-Patch, 1” above each horizontal seam line and 1” below each horizontal seam line. You now have two mirrored rows of stitching. Flip the ruler and stitch a mirrored row of ribbon candy across the top row of squares. You will add two mirrored rows in the center that overlap each other and the previously stitched rows forming circles within the rows.īegin by stitching the first row of ribbon candy across the bottom row of squares per original instructions. Basically you will stitch a top row and a bottom row that are mirrored. While it lays out well on paper, we need to remember that nothing is exact when working with fabric and batting, and I found that I had to do a bit of “fudging” for this to turn out. The alternate center is a bit more challenging. The 3” Ribbon Candy will just fit in the rows. Repeat this row so that you will have 3 rows of 3” ribbon candy across each row of the 9-Patch block. Stitch the next ribbon candy.Ĭontinue across the row ending at the far seam line of the 9-Patch. Keep the solid black horizontal lines on the seam lines. Keeping the needle and the foot down, slide the ruler to the right so that the black lines on the ruler lay over the previously stitched ribbon candy design.
Stitch around the loop, stopping when you get all the way around the ruler. While I am starting in the lower left corner, placing the solid black lines on the ruler over the seam lines, I will check to make sure the ruler is in the correct position by seeing where the needle will stitch when in the most outside position and that it will just touch the outside seam.Īfter correctly positioning the ruler, go back to the lower left corner to begin stitching.
You may begin at the top or the bottom of the 9-Patch center, but here I have begun at the bottom. If you want a challenge, then consider the alternate design made with the Ribbon Candy Rulers.Īs a novice, begin with the 3” Ribbon Candy Ruler. If you are a novice, you will simply quilt three rows of Ribbon Candy in the block as you see on the complete roadmap.
This set offers 4 different sizes and have all the right markings making them easy to use.Īlthough you generally see Ribbon Candy Quilting designs as an all over pattern or in borders, we are going to quilt three rows of this design in the 9-patch for the center of our block. I have used Good Measure Amanda Murphy Every Ribbon Candy template set. It consists of half circles joined by slanted lines. I have included an alternative center if you want to be a bit more challenged with the quilting! You can see the Ribbon Candy Quilting on the Roadmap for this month’s block. So let’s do the design with rulers to perfect the quilting. The ribbon candy quilting design is one we strive to do, and not only just to do, but to keep even as we do it! As we do larger and larger Ribbon Candy designs, for example in borders, it is harder and harder to keep them even and regular.
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