Disappearing Nine Patch Archives

Congrats to Nate and Missy as they welcome their son, Ryan. I’ve known about his arrival for so long and was super excited to meet him.

Ryan has a great jungle themed nursery and is the “rhino” in his jungle. Cute huh? My original thought was something animal for a quilt. The stuff I was finding was not want I wanted or match the nursery.

After I found what I was going to do I found the Robert Kaufman Animal Party. The Retro prints would have been perfect. You can find the kits and other coordinating fabrics at Fat Quarter Shop. The kits were cute, but expensive for me right now. Grlfrnd has been trying to use up the stash…not add to it.

During a Fat Tuesday sell at Sew and Quilt, I found some great Florida Gators fabric. Since Missy has her PhD from Florida and they still live in Gainesville, it is quite fitting. Little Ry-no will have plenty of Gators stuff, so I wanted to contribute. I had looked for a Tebow jersey so he could match his mom.

I started with 5 fat quarters and created a disappaearing nine patch. This has become my go to pattern anymore. It’s so easy and does give a quilt a great random look without much effort.

Once the blocks are completed, they were cut down the center both horizontally and vertically. I then pieced the blocks together trying my best to keep the writing all going the same way. For the quilting I wanted to keep it simple and not take away from the piecing. Diagonals were easy and really set off the quilt. Unlike others the tails were able to be put in the binding keeping them secure.

Over the weekend we went to visit Baby Ryan. He is super cute and snuggly. No moms, this does want to make us speed up the baby process, we’re still about 3-5 years out. Ryan sported his Gators onesie and the new quilt during the Florida win over Georgia. Go Gators! Too bad our other teams could not deliver yesterday.

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What started as a group effort betwen my girlfriends and I has turned into something I love to do for my friends. When KT got married we worked a quilt that included quotes about love, marriage and friendship. When C-ann got married the following year we did another one that was very similar.

Then I moved to Florida.

Last year we attended Ben & Abby’s lovely wedding in Pataski, Michigan in August. It was a great weekend. They had a great colors and I had picked out material for their quilt back in January prior to our move. I worked on the pieces all summer, but did not get the quilt finished. Then other stuff happened and it just took forever. Finally this summer I was determined to finish the quilt in order to be there for a their one year anniversary.

For this quilt I used a Disappearing Nine Patch pattern. It is very easy to do and gives the quilt a nice random look. With so many colors and different patterns, this is a great pattern to highlight each fabric. These are the wedding colors of Ben & Abby as well.

One of the reasons Ben & Abby’s quilt was so late is because myself and two other girlfriends were all engaged within a two month period. My girlfriends however were getting married a week apart in August. I had six months to make their two quilts and finalize B & A’s as well.

Below is a picture of LeeAnne’s wedding quilt. Her wedding colors were hot pink and black. I can’t imagine a better combination for her. I tried something new with her quilt…applique. For my first try, it did not turn out too bad.

Lastly, I had Krista’s quilt to work on. Krista chose great colors: lemon, lime and orange. I had to code all my projects early on so the girls wouldn’t know what I was really working on. Hence, I called this the citrus quilt. Below are pictures of the pieces of the quilt. I have yet to finish the actual quilting. I’m calling this one cascading colors.

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