Pink and Green Disappearing Nine Patch Progress

I managed to get quite a bit of quilt stuff done this weekend. I got a few Granny Squares done for the Great Granny Along. And I finally got my donation fabric sorted and bagged ready for postage (an embarrassing number of FQ's off to better homes!!).

I also put my Pink and Green Disappearing Nine Patch blocks together. I was a couple short, but it was the work of minutes to make up the two i needed. It's only 4x4 of 12" blocks, so its a bit small. I am thinking of a plain white 4" border around the edge. This is the size of one square in the original nine patch. I think I might use the left over cut sections as corner blocks? I'm open to ideas about how I can enlarge it without too much extra work. It was only meant to be a quicky project and I want to get it done so it doesn't get added to the UFO pile! I think a little bigger will be fine as a lap quilt.

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Disappearing Nine Patch - Awesome!

Do you ever have one of those moments where you just discover the best thing and wondering why it took you so long? I had one of those moments yesterday. I had lots of great feedback on what to do with my left over Nine Patch Strips. One of the suggestions was to work up the spares using the Disappearing Nine Patch technique. It was such an inspiration I went home and worked up a heap of blocks so I could play with them (not using the left over strips of course, that would be too sensible!). Anyway, I made up eight 12 1/2" blocks using pink and green. I've been wanting to do something in this combo for a while, to use up some of the large number of pink fabrics I've managed to collect. An example is just below:

 

For those not familiar with the technique, you make nine patch blocks and then cut them in four sections. Then you can play. Here is the layout that I first saw the idea used in. A great way to get a sashed quilt without messing with sashing and setting squares! 

 

Or another block, which I think I will use these demo blocks for, is this one: 

 

So, eight blocks isn't quite enough to work with. So I might do another eight tonight, as they only took about an hour all up to do.

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