Disappearing Nine Patch

Yesterday at our get together, Sue was busy working on the binding on Joyce's most recent I Spy quilt.  I believe it was Penny who commented on the interesting pattern and Joyce told us that it was a Disappearing Nine Patch pattern.  

As soon as a quilt block or pattern comes up in our discussions it never fails that I come across it the next time I am on the internet.  I have no doubt that my computer knows everything about me so I am never too surprised about this but it is a little creepy.  

So, it was probably no coincidence that the following post appeared on Joyce's Facebook pages today:

I remember what a sensation this was when it first starting doing the rounds.  Quilters' Haven had a class and there was one displayed by the cutting table.  We used to stand in front of it trying to work out how a nine patch could be converted into that final block but it really is easy/peasy as the post says.  

I confess that I took the class but misunderstood a key point--that the middle block should be the same colour on all the blocks to create a diagonal pattern.  I made all my blocks, cut them up but couldn't figure out why my blocks didn't look like the quilt at Quilter's Haven.  I ended up giving my blocks away to my friend, Georgina and she turned it into a nice quilt.  But, I still like this pattern and think it would make a nice baby quilt so will probably try again.

We now have Disappearing Hourglasses, Pinwheels and Flying Geese to name just a few.  Click here for a Youtube Channel dedicated to unique "disappearing" block quilts.