Sudoku Twister

While we were at retreat I got the brilliant idea that we should have a Sudoku swap.  I really couldn’t tell you if I made this idea up after lack of sleep or if I’ve heard of it somewhere.  I mean I know there’s Sudoku quilts out there and Sudoku Quilt books so that idea wasn’t new…but a swap?  The idea was that with 9 swappers we could each make a Sudoku quilt.  7 of us went to Stitcher’s Crossing and I’m sad to say I became the type of shopper that annoys me.  You know, pulling out bolts at random and sticking them back in with reckless abandon.  That aside, the 7 of us set about to pick out 9 fabrics. 

Each person needed to cut Eighty One, 5” squares so that they could put them into piles of 9 so each swapper would get a stack.  This meant everyone purchased 1-5/8ths yards.  Here’s the Nine Luscious batiks that we started out with.

Now, really, since I pulled this whole Sudoku quilt swap concept out of my ass I was still taken aback when people asked…what next?  I think I stared pretty blankly and went to Google. 

Ohhhh yeah, thank you Google, that’s where I recently saw Sudoku Quilts…Moda. 

Oh yeah, now what?  My response was, “This just gives everybody a chance to be realllllly cre8tive.”  I was met with BLANK STARES if you can believe it.  I’m not quite sure why…shrug.

Meanwhile back at the ranch…

My friend Susie became enamored with Twister Quilts and since I go by the “Choose your own adventure” when you quilt philosophy I was thinking…what about a Sudoku Twister quilt????  Wouldn’t that look more interesting than Nine 9-patches??  Hmmmmmmmm????

Now, even though I came up with this brilliant idea I’ve never done a Sudoku game in my life.  I tried…quite a few times in the last few weeks.  But every time I got 1/2 way through, I accidentally hit the back button and cleared out my game.  I’ve now decided to give up and just go looking for one with the answers already filled in. 

 

Which I then translated into EQ. 

So I put it together (Forgive the awful iPhone picture).

And then, I started chopping it back up using the Twister Tool method..  Isn’t this 4 patch block cute??

Here’s the finished but un-quilted product.

The coolest thing is that 5 of my 8 other Sudoku Swap buddies got to see it in person today and now I’m hoping they’re all excited about doing something with their charms!