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I haven’t quite finished my first coffee of the day, and it took me a couple of minutes to work out what was wrong with the design above. Can you see it?

It took a while for me to realize when I started this project file that the corners of each Nine Patch block looked better if they were a paler shade of green.

Answer to the question above … the corner blocks contain a mis-coloured piece, even when they are not on the side.

These designs all have Nine Patch blocks with identical corner squares, a vision I had one sleepless midnight hour. There are lots of possible corner blocks which create s filler design right across the quilt top. They become the background design when the other five squares are added to the mix.

I like the colouring in the first design best, but like the second design overall design best.

In the design above the darker section of the blocks could stand by itself with blank corners, but one night I woke up with the idea that the blank corners of the block could become an additional design element. Usually when I have ideas in the middle of the night they escape before morning, but this one was still in my head when daylight came so i turned on the computer and started drawing 9P blocks with empty corners, and then some ideas for the corners which would form a secondary design.

Then I had to mix up the centre ...

Love the first design.

In these designs all 25 nine patch blocks have identical corner units.

I intended to use a contrast colour for the corners, but got carried away before I found a combination which worked.

In the second design the four corners stand out more than the other five squares which make up the 9P blocks.

I don’t design many quilts with just one block repeated, but in this project file I have tried many of the blocks by themselves so that I see the way the corners of the blocks come together to form there own part of the pattern.

After a look at the way the corners look I go on to play with other blocks with the same corner design added to the mix. It is always interesting, and also fun.

Very interesting!

Piecing is rarely my first choice of making a quilt top, at least, not until the applique is finished, but I do like the first design today.

Also interesting, but I prefer the first one.

Interesting.

Better contrast, and I like it.

All the blocks in this project file are 9 patch blocks which have identical corners. In most of the designs I have used a pale fabric for the corners, but thought I should try at least a few with darker corners.

I much prefer pale corners which fade into the background, which means I like the second one better than the first, even though I like the design created by the dark centres in the first one much more than the second.

Love the block in the centre! Love the design overall too.

The colour reflects the green of the weeds which will grow amongst the gold crops after the recent rains, and in my newly weeded garden!

Love teh block in the top centre position … and love the design overall too.

I have a large collection of 9 patch blocks created by mixing up the corner four squares with different centre squares … and of course the squares in the middle of each side of the nine patch blocks.

The design above shows a quilt with nine patch blocks with the same corner squares in each block and the same centre squares, and the side squares left plain.

The two designs below have the same pattern in the centre of each side, and some of the designs created in this way are rather good, even if I do say so myself.

These ...