G's Quilt

Right now I'm in the process of making a Disappearing Nine Patch quilt for our latest grandson, who just turned four months old.  DH (who is a minister) will be baptising G. in 8 days, and I have to have the quilt done by then!  His mom requested a dinosaur theme, preferably with the colours rusty red, blue, and green--in kind of dusky, country shades.  Fortunately I found some dinosaur fabric with the correct colours, but matching up the other colours was a little more tricky.  I bought some orange, blue and brown fabric to go with it, but I'm ending up using some fabric from my stash--it just seemed to go better.

 There are two kinds of Disappearing Nine Patch quilts--some that look kind of random, and a more symmetrical version.  Perhaps I'm more uptight than I thought I was, but I really prefer the more orderly version...  


First you make up a bunch of nine patches, with your main fabric in the four corners.  For this baby quilt, I did a total of twenty nine patches. 

(I forgot to take a photo until after I'd sliced them all up!)

 After assembling these, you then slice them into four quarters.  

Rearrange the squares so that the small square in the corner is in the upper right-hand of each unit.  Now sew them all back together again!

After doing this you will probably want to add the appropriate sashing pieces to the the left and bottom.  Since I did my nine patches by strip piecing, I had some units left over to make the pieced edge, but I still had to make a few more.

I'm adding a border this time, but I don't always--it looks fine without a border.