Originally Posted by
GailG
I agree with Shelbie. The reason I don't think it's a D9P is that the solid strip (some blocks orange and some blocks navy) has no seam....see the closeup. I love this quilt. The positive and negative blocks are cool.
The original 9-patch was made with four print blocks and five blocks of a solid: half of the blocks were made with five navy solid and half have five orange solid. After these are sewn with sashing (orange sashing on the navy blocks and navy sashing on the orange blocks), they are cut into four pieces, therefore you have the print with sashing on two sides (orange or navy), and orange or navy pieces that came from the solid blocks of the original sashed 9-patch.
I hope this can be visualized with my explanation.
The solid strip you see is from the sashing that was put on to sew the three rows of cut 9-patch blocks together.