Disappearing 9 Patch Quilt

This was a quilt in a day class I took at a local fabric store. It was fun to learn some new skills from our very talented, experienced quilt master!

You start with an equal amount of light and dark squares measuring 6.5"x6.5". Therefore, if you want the quilt to be 12 large squares, you need 24 light and 24 dark. For 20 squares, you need 40 light and 40 dark.

Then you start chains sewing the lights to the darks and then sewing two of those together.

Once you have done that, you start cutting the squares into 9 pieces by using a 4.5" ruler and lining it up on the outside edge. Make a cut. The rotate it 90* and cut and continue until you have made 4 cuts all the way around the edges.

Then you take the middle pieces around the edges and flip the 180*.

Then you assemble these into a 9 patch.

This process is pretty time consuming as each square is unique and you only do one at a time. This is as far as I got in my class!

Then you add sashing (11.5"x2.5" strips in all one color) between each block (so block, sash, block, sash, block, sash, block). First sewing rows together. Then sew rows of sash and and cornerstones (2.5" squares in contrasting color) together. Then sew row to sashing strip and then row and so on.

I'm not done but it's pretty close!