from one patch to four patch

Last post I showed you two 1 patch quilts that I had cut out.  I really didn't feel like sewing all those little patches together just yet, so I set them aside and made two 4 patch quilts this past weekend.  The first came about when I ran across this piece of vintage fabric in my stash. 

I had used this fabric in blocks before, as well as a border in another quilt.  I had only this piece left and wanted to use it to best effect.  I decided to cut two inch pieces to use as setting squares for a four patch quilt.  The size was defined by how many of these squares I could eek out. 

I picked some colors that I thought would work and made several combinations of strip pieces for the 4 patches.

Here is the final result.  I tried a few borders but when I put up the green, I knew that was the one.

 The second four patch was inspired as I was paging through photos of quilts I had made over the last several years.  I made one very similar to this when I first starting using antique fabrics.  It is simple, but there's much to be said for simple.  The smallest squares in this one are 1 inch finished.

Here is a photo of the two quilts together so you can see a size comparison-1 inch vs. 3/4 inch squares.