Nine Patch Quilt

Nine Patch Quilt

Grade: A

Difficulty: Advanced-beginner

Pattern: None!

The whole quilt in all it's craziness! Not sure if you can tell, but I tried to do diagonal rows of color to give it a little bit of unity. I also tried to alternate the darker and lighter colors.

So this one, I'm kind of not sure how to review for you, because I didn't use a pattern!

The best I can do, is share and explanation as well as some approximate measurements.

A close up of some of the blocks.

Firstly, I chose to do this quilt with solid blocks, no sashing, so the numbers I give you will be based off of the same. If you want to do sashing on your particular quilt (less cutting and piecing!), with nine patches, take a look at one of these: Crazy Mom Quitls Nine Patch
Alternately, you can stagger nine patch blocks with blocks of solid fabric like this: Staggered Nine Patch

Secondly, if you want to do bigger blocks and pieces, you are going to have to do your own math to figure it out! My numbers are only for the top, so nothing for backing or batting.

Another close up.

I cut each square of the blocks 2.5". You then sew three pieces together into a row. You sew three rows total, then sew the three rows together into a block. You can make it so that you alternate your colors, giving each block a checkerboard look, or you can make them totally random! Once you sew them together into a nine patch  (3x3 squares), the block is 6.5". Finished, the blocks are 6". This means there are tons of individual pieces! I can't tell you yardages, because as you can see, it's very, very scrappy!


I did do one 2.5" border around the edges of mine, just to give it a little bit of balance so the eye had somewhere to actually rest. The numbers below will give a yardage requirement for the same size border, as well as the finished size listed will reflect how big the quilt is with the border added.

If you need more specific help on assembling the nine patches, try doing a Google search. It's a very common quilt block, so you should be able to find lots to help you!

What a stack of 224 quilt blocks looks like before they are sewn together.

Queen size quilt:

14 blocks across x 16 blocks down
224 blocks total
2016 pieces
Border requirement: 7/8 yard chosen fabric.
Approximate finished size: 81.5 Wide x 94" Long

Full size quilt:

13 blocks across x 14 blocks down
182 blocks total
1638 pieces
Border requirement: 3/4 yard chosen fabric
Approx. finished size: 82" W x 88" L

Twin size quilt:

11 blocks across x 14 blocks down
154 blocks total
1386 pieces
Border requirement:  3/4 yard chosen fabric
Approx. finished size: 70" W x 88" L

Throw size:

10 blocks across x 11 blocks down
110 blocks total
990 pieces total
Border requirement:2/3 yard chosen fabric
Approx. finished size: 64"W x 70"L