Six by Nine

Here's MALACHITE all sewn up and trimmed. At this point, the rows are not sewn together. I may rearrange them. (you can click the photo to enlarge)

Yesterday I was trying to figure out if I -really- needed to add White, Black and Brown. Thinking about how yesterday was 10-10-10 made me think about how my color words had nine letters each, and if I used nine words, the quilt would be Nine by Nine, or Nine Squared.

I have decided the final three colors, Black, White and Brown. They will be:

NIGHTHAWK (gives me a W and a K)

CHAMPAGNE (ok, it isn't white, but you get the idea)

CHOCOLATE (too damn perfect to ignore)

I am making the letters for CHOCOLATE, and all I have is plain, ordinary browns. If anybody has chocolate-themed fabrics, I'd love to swap. Letters don't need much fabric - a 4-1/2" wide strip about 20" long is more than enough for any letter (except maybe a W). Email me at patcherymenagerie AT gmail DOT com. Thanks.

Nine Letter Words on 10/10/10

You guys are terrific! I loved LIQUORICE, but here in the USA it is spelled LICORICE.

Dear Selvage Fairy, I already have a Q in TURQUOISE.

FUNNELWEB is a bit on the obscure side. I had similar problems with GYRFALCON.

PANTHERES (French version plural) would be good, but the words can't be 9 letters simply by being plural.

NIGHTHAWK, from Hopper's painting would be good, and has the added advantage of including a W and a K, which do not appear in my words as yet.

OBSIDIAN, has only 8 letters.

HOWEVER.... (7 letters)

I googled nine-letter words, and in addition to finding a link to one of my previous posts, deep in the list I found this: a Scrabble list of nine-letter words. OMIGOODNESS! You have to check it out, just because it is so amazing. I spent about twenty minutes browsing...

Here are just a -few- of the words that caught my attention, and not all of them are black..

AVALANCHE

BLINDNESS

CRANKCASE

DRIFTWOOD (this says GRAY to me, though)

GABARDINE

HOMICIDAL (good word, but kinda grisly)

LABYRINTH

MONADNOCK (there is a mountain about an hour's drive away from my house that is called Mt Monadnock)

MONZONITE

NIGHTMARE

QUICKSAND (can you image the top half of the letters visible and the bottom half cut off?)

SACRILEGE (what can I say? I was raised Catholic)

SOAPSTONE (I'm pretty sure soapstone can be black, but this word says WHITE to me.)

TRAPEZOID

XYLOPHONE (This is awesome... can you see this one in black-and-white fabrics...)

but the absolute BEST discovery, wasn't a black word at all. It was...

CHOCOLATE!