Question regarding disappearing 4 and 9 patch. Help Please
 

I have not tried the disappearing 4 and nine patches and my question is how do you place your colors. Do you go all scrappy, or what. I want to use fall leaf fabrics, one is all leaves, one is leaves plus other designs, one is a grayish green solid that goes with both of the other fabrics. Should I use 5 of the solid? or what.

You can make however it pleases you. I haven't done one scrappy but, if you want to you can. Your quilt your choice.

You could probably google and get lots if different pictures to help you decide

I've made several D9P ... all scrappy, more or less. The one I'm working on now, I've put I Spy blocks on the outer four corners with a solid blue in the center. The other four blocks are dots, various colors. I've done it this way so that I can preserve the I Spy blocks and the other blocks are cut. So in a sense, I've made a scrappy quilt with a pattern. My ideas for pondering.

When I've done the d9p I've put the largest prints in the 4 corners, the ones that will look good as the bars in the side positions and the accent ones that will look good cut in 4 pieces in the centers. So it is a planned scrappy.

The d4p I've done closer to a true scrappy, but still paying attention to light and dark for a certain degree of contrast.

You can do your quilt any way you want. The D9P I made had the same fabrics in the corners of the 9 patch, the same lighter colors in the 4 side patches, a different dark color in the center of the 9 patch. To get the effect of the D9P, I think you need to at least have the fairly standard dark colors in the corners and center, and lighter colors in the other 4 squares (or the reverse). But each square could be different fabric if you want.

I think the same would be true of the D4P - to have dark colors in the opposite 2 corners and lighter fabrics in the other opposite 2 colors.

I like everything scrappy but the center block, I like that one the same since it comes out to be the smaller squares. I think it adds continuity to the quilt. But then, I also don't mind the same fabric being side by side or perpendicular. So I think it's just personal choice. For me the more fabrics the better.

Look in the QB photo gallery- a sticky in the pictures section. There are a lot of examples of different kinds of D9P's, both scrappy & not. Lots of good ideas.