BTW, it can also be called ‘lattice’, usually when your blocks are set ‘on point’. That means that instead of the blocks going vertical and horizontal across the quilt, they go at an angle from corner to corner, like this one:
Sorry, I keep having more random thoughts… You might enjoy Jordan Fabric’s videos on YouTube. In each one she makes a whole quilt, sometimes a free pattern of her own, sometimes a paid pattern. But without actually being a ‘here’s how to make a quilt’ super-basic video, you still learn SO MUCH from every one she does. She explains as she goes, managing to walk the line between explaining stuff and not making you feel like an idiot. I’m an experienced quilting, and learn new stuff from her all the time, but as I watch her videos (often while quilting), I also see how many terms and techniques she introduces that I would have loved to have spelled out when I was learning.
@skrutt, you managed to accomplish so much in a weekend! Both yours and your mom’s blocks look great and your little houses quilt came looks like a fun wall hanging. I like the use of the yellow for binding!
@gozer, I was actually looking at that quilt pattern earlier this month. I like their use of low volume fabrics in the middle and the brighter fabrics for the sashing. The pattern is very similar to a disappearing 9-patch, which in my opinion is an easier, faster way to complete the same look.
In my I-Spy patterns, I use a disappearing 9-patch to achieve most of the sashing. I sewed together a 9-patch (3 squares x 3 squares), then cut it in half both vertically and horizontally.
Once all the nine patches were cut down and the individual blocks sewn together, I ended up with a quilt that just needed sashing along the bottom and right sides.
I love this disappearing nine-patch pattern and also used it to make a Christmas quilt (which is one of my three quilts that just needs labeling and binding to be completed [one of my quarterly goals is to get at least one of the three done before March!]).
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@marionberries used the D9P in her last quilt…there are so many variations from very symmetrical to wild and wonky!
@MistressJennie I also find it annoying that people use time honored patterns and claim it as their own…I want to call them out on it with examples that date back to the 1800’s! ha ha ha
@AudiobookLover Beautiful use of the disappearing 9 patch! It was an eye opener for me too. @MistressJennie I think many quilters use traditional patterns and then their own fabric choices and then “brand” the combination. Some quilters need the guidence, some of us can’t make ourselves follow a pattern exactly.
I marionberries submit my January BOM. I can’t say I liked this block, but I like this combo. Quiz…spot the design changes and mistakes. I think this one broke my dislexic brain. I should give it a name!
I used the method of ironing the hst to an interfacing grid, but didn’t pay enough attention to the direction they should be facing. And then sewed one row incorrectly. It’s a block!
@AudiobookLover - that kind of blew my mind. I thought they were the same, but your way seems so much better! Thank you for sharing.
And @Magpie , thank you for being as amazed as me. It helps me not feel so alone! Man, quilting is clever and complex.
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Your block looks good to me…as I can’t seem to wrap my head around how it is supposed to be…my guess is that some diamond things are going the wrong way? gaaah…my eyes are going wonky trying to figure it out, so, as I said…it looks fine! ha ha
As @MistressJennie said in her earlier post, “We’re all learning new stuff all the time,” which is so true! Just recently @marionberries posted a different disappearing 9-patch pattern, which made me realize, ‘wait a second, the blocks in the original 9 patch (before it’s cut up) don’t all have to be the same size!’
I feel like that knowledge opened up a whole new set of possibilities. In my quilts, my sashing was exactly half the size of my squares, since the original 9-patch was made up of all 5" squares. But when looking at the Peanut Butter Quilt pattern, I noticed that the sashing didn’t seem to be just half of the larger squares, it looks to be a bit smaller.
So, if that pattern were done as a disappearing 9-patch, it would look more like this:
@AIMR The fabrics make it hard to see where I went wrong. I do like the end results and it is not getting redone. It will end up in my next scrap quilt. @AudiobookLover, dont you just live a good aha moment. Dissapearing blocks have always fascinated me and I just started wrapping my head around them.
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That’s beautiful! It makes the quilt look much more complex but also distributes the colors and patterns nicely without a lot of thinking about it!
I got a cheat card of the various ways to layout the D9P…I am going to play around with them after I cut them…it will be a small, square baby quilt, but it should still be fun to try out different layouts other than the one I have my head set on!
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Thanks for posting that simple diagram…I was just about to sew together my same sized patches as I wanted to make a quilt similar to what @marionberries made…I did not catch that she used different sizes!! No wonder I was confused…I could not envision this and just made a regular 9 patch with 9 inch squares!
hmmm…I suppose I could cut down the middle part after I sew my big 9 patch…but then the quilt might be smaller than I wanted…
ok–back to the drawing board…literally…ha ha
ohhh–I could use the smaller cuts to make a border around the middle part…hmmm
The whole thing depends on what colors you put in which places on the original 9 Patch. For this one I put the rust color in the center of the patch, the medium blue in the middle ‘cross’, and the dark blue and cream in the corners. That meant that the rust would always be a small square, and the medium blue would always be a rectangle, while the dark blue and cream would always be whole squares.
And if you are going with this type of finished design, that means that you can do strip piecing to make the 9 Patches. Traditional piecing means you would cut out all 9 squares, then seam them all together to make a 9 Patch. But strip piecing means that you can cut a strip of dark blue, medium blue, and cream, that are whatever width x the whole length of fabric. So in this case 3.5" x 42". You then sew the strips along the whole length, THEN cut them into 3.5" cross pieces. This makes piecing faster, and you’re not wasting as much thread. And the added benefit is that your blocks will come out straighter and less chance of being wonky. If you make the block the Traditional way, it would have 8 individual seams to put it together. (Think of each seam as a chance for wonkiness.) But if you’ve strip pieced, then 6 of those seams are pre-done, and already cut straight. Leaving you just 2 more seams to complete the block. (Two seams, instead of 8, means less chance of wonk.)
And just for pure insanity, in case some of your brains aren’t scrambled yet, here’s an alterante Double Disappearing 9 Patch, which changes the placement of the cuts, then swaps pieces with a second block to change the fabrics and the whole look.
Dissapearing 4 or 9 patch rabbit hole! This is so much fun!
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Oh, this is a good one! I want my two rabbit prints to stay whole!
My mind is boggled by all of this, but I was thinking it would be a fabulous challenge to do a different D9P all through the year…I want to try them all!
-I mvanrh11, submit this as my current January BOM entry.
I decided to try the BOM challenge and use fabric from the quilts I work on during the month. So I was glad there was two blocks this month so I could use the fabric from the two different projects I am working on.
- I did not enjoy the random measurements of this, the amount of times I had to google where 5/8 is on a ruler (I am in Australia, I use cms normally). I saw @MistressJennie tips after I had cut the fabric
I have some batik 5inch squares, I want to put them together on point and then use black as the filler between the squares. In the image, ignoring the sashing, row 1,3,5 would be batik squares (4 per block), row 2,4 would be black (and so would all triangles)
Would it be easier / quicker / better to use 1 big square for the black sections or 4 pieced together the same as the batiks?
So you do need to cut your triangles from larger squares, but HOW you cut them really matters, and you will need to cut the Corner Triangles and Side Setting Triangles differently!
For the Side Setting Triangles, you want to cut a big square, then bisect it both ways to get 4 triangles out of 1 square. That will give you triangles that are BIAS along the inner cuts, and the Straight of Grain will be along the outside edge of your quilt. This is important! You want the outer edge of your quilt to be nice and straight.
For the Corner Triangles, you need to cut 1 large square, and then bisect in JUST ONE direction. That will mean your two outer edges are on the Straight of Grain.
Jordan Fabrics on YouTube has done a bunch of On Point quilts, but I just grabbed the first simple one for you to watch. You can even skip past making the Log Cabin blocks, and then she’ll get into cutting the Triangles. I picked this video because Log Cabins are traditional blocks, so it’s a free pattern. In some of her videos, if she’s using a paid pattern, she can’t give you the cutting dimensions.
And here’s a good written tutorial about setting blocks On Point.
that’s what a disappearing nine-patch is? OMW I never paid any attention to that before. How clever! I’m going to use that for sure.
