DP9 revised and beautiful. How creative!!! Your quilt is quite adorable and will be much appreciated. I like doing machine embroidery also. I just did a DP9 using 12-10" layer cake squares, cut into 4 squares (corners of the 9patch) and a couple coordinating fabrics' one for the center and the other for the four inner outside squares. I scattered the blocks to make it scrappy looking. I prewashed all the fabric, including the layer cake, thus shrinkage caused me to cut those 10" layer cake squares down to 9 1/2", but the blocks ended up around 12"; added a couple borders and ended up with a 43x55 quilt.