Friday, October 26, 2012

A Ninepatch Pinwheel Quilt

Dead Man's Flats
























To design Dead Man's Flats, I started with a ninepatch grid.




I asked:

What if I fill some of the squares with half-square triangles?


What if I make two versions of the block using different colors?


What if I arrange two of each version to form a pinwheel?


(Since I used ninepatch blocks to make a pinwheel block, I call the new block a Ninepatch Pinwheel block.)



If I put 4 of my new Ninepatch Pinwheel blocks together with the red in the center, I get this even larger block.

If I put 4 of my new Ninepatch Pinwheel blocks together with the yellow at the center, I get this block.








I combined the two large  bocks to make the Dead Man's Flats quilt at the beginning of this post.


If I start all over again, I can color my ninepatch block differently.

Then I get this Ninepatch Pinwheel block.



(It's wonderful how color changes a block.)
And I get this Ninepatch Pinwheel quilt.















Come back tomorrow and I'll show you another Ninepatch Pinwheel block.

1 comment:

  1. Wayne,

    Very interesting designs ... and I like all of them.

    Judy B

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