{"id":56408,"date":"2022-07-14T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=56408"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:50:17","slug":"diagonal-nine-patch-baby-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/diagonal-nine-patch-baby-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagonal Nine Patch Baby Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Peggy's<\/a>
Peggy’s Diagonal Nine Patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got this idea from Peggy at the June BAM meeting. It was so simple that I slapped my head and wondered why I didn’t think of it.<\/p>\n

Peggy is font of good ideas. The quilt she showed was scrappy and had a rose background. It was great and made me start thinking about my newest great niece-phew. S\/he is expected in October.<\/p>\n

I wanted to make the new baby a quilt, but nothing was generating any excitement. I wasn’t finding the mix of interesting patterns, ease of construction and appeal in the millions of patterns I have. When I saw this one, I felt a flicker of interest.<\/p>\n

\"B&W<\/a>
B&W Diagonal 9 Patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decided to try some blocks in black and white and see what happened. I made them while working on Pies & Points<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am really pleased with how they look. Most of the fabrics came from my bin of white on black dot fabrics. I got those out after I rummaged through my 2.5 inch square bins and pulled out all the white on black squares. Recently I have pulled out another bin of white on black fabrics to make more blocks. This is a great quilt for scraps, as you can see from Peggy’s version. Also, my black and white blocks are a controlled scrappy.<\/p>\n

I started with the idea that I would make 18 A and 18 B blocks. I made most of the 18 blocks using the leaders and enders method<\/a> while I worked on Pies & Points. Once that baby was finished, I put the Diagonal Nine Patch blocks up on the design wall. The blocks aren’t sewn together, but I decided I needed more blocks. I need to make at least one more column and one more row, but maybe two. I like generous baby quilts.<\/p>\n

\"B&W<\/a>
B&W Diagonal 9 Patch – A and B blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once the blocks were pointed out to me, I could see how easy the quilt could be. The A block is highlighted on the left and the B block is in the middle. <\/p>\n

You can certainly use all squares, but I decided to save myself some time and figured out the size of strips I needed to use for the A blocks. It makes those blocks sew up a little bit more quickly.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this design is that it can be made with 2.5 inch squares, 5 inch squares or any size really. One inch finished would take a lot of blocks unless you were making a doll quilt, but would be a great leaders and enders project. If you used blocks that were larger than 5 inches, it would be a great way to make a large quilt quickly. I am not sure if the design would show up very well, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got this idea from Peggy at the June BAM meeting. It was so simple that I slapped my head and wondered why I didn’t think of it. Peggy is font of good ideas. The quilt she showed was scrappy and had a rose background. It was great and made me start thinking about my … Continue reading “Diagonal Nine Patch Baby Quilt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[518,316],"class_list":["post-56408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-diagonal-nine-patch","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56427,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408\/revisions\/56427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}