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.