Wow, you all are great. I think I found my understanding problem. When I read the about quitling.com page on blocks I misunderstood what they were talking about the units in a block. So from reading that and them talking about the patchs of 4,7,5,9 and so on I thought they meant blocks, which lead to my confusion when looking at some quilts. When I was looking at 9 BLOCK quilts I was seeing 16 pathc patterns blocks and there was my confussion. I just reread that article again and got it straight, plus you all cleared it up more.
What I need is a good tech book that shows these break downs and explains them real clear. Any suggestions there?