Amazing how something old is something new (quilting, crochet,sewing,crafts)... Beautiful quilts!

Veery pretty quilt..

There are probably 10-12 ways to put that quilt together as it is. Can I own it if I do it differently? Each of you might as well claim it, too!

BUT BUT BUT. The first pic does not have a split 9 patch in it. Ther are only 8 HST per block in the first quilt pic, and for that matter in the other pics shown. And those triangle squares are 2 per side.

The 1st picture DOES have a split nine patch...there is just another border before the last borders of just neutral blocks. They give the impression of a bigger block...

I guess you could make this quilt with a split 9 patch, but you'd have to be very diligent matching that pink triangle from a print piece and a pink triangle from a white piece. I guess the other half of each was discarded since I only see the one pink outside square.

Thank you, eparys, for the illustration of the ninepatch with the the half-square triangles. I can easily make this with just your little illustration. I can hardly wait for my pile of scraps to just turn themselves into squares so I can make this quilt. Tee-Hee!

Well, whatever this is called or however a person chooses to make it, I've just found the quilt I'm going to make with my 2.5 inch squares! I think I'll use the QC "split 9 patch" directions as those blocks will work up quickly and will allow a great deal of variability. Thanks for sharing all those pix and directions. Very informative! Beautiful quilts btw!

Can of Worms?
 

I never heard of that book but I have heard and said that very often! I just realized that is what I have been doing all these years! Starting a quilt I am sorry about later...just like opening a can of worms. Now at least I know what to call it or, more accurately, them!

If I was going to do this, this is how I would do it:

The lower drawings were my first attempt at it - because I saw it as a 4x4 block with "sashings" -

The tops drawings are how I probably would assemble it after looking at it more carefully.

There is usually more than one way to assemble a block or a quilt top!

Good job, Bear. But the way I see it, the four corners of the top drawing are the corners of the next square. I haven't tried this yet, so I may have a lot to learn.

Yeah, it's Arkansas Crossroads, most commonly. Split 9 patch looks like this:

https://quiltville.com/pdf/Split9Pat...ass_supply.pdf

There are different ways to arrange the basic block, which is the 9 patch block that Dunster posted in post #15.

I was anxious to see the books on the Kansas City Star quilt blocks that were in my Guild's library. I thought it would be the more "common" names of blocks since they were shared all over the country. Much to my surprise, they were renamed by the person who submitted the block. They were obviously not "new" blocks then and they aren't "new" blocks now. So blocks have many many names and each hand seems to call them what they want to call them.

Bear is Gray's method is the one demonstrated in the Chiclet's pattern. I agree it makes the most sense to me, too.

The split 9 patch ("split" meaning only split between light and dark, not actually "cut" in two) is doable, too. But I think I'd have more trouble assembling those 9 patches than Bear's (and Chiclet's) way due to the necessary but odd looking color arrangement it requires.

'can of worms' quilt could be done by making a 16 patch, then the alternate block could be a white square with covered corners on two sides. BUT the original picture and the question looks like the white/tans were pieced as two long strips wof, then cut into '2 patches'. then arranged pleasingly, with 1/2 sq tri at mid points. right? YES, bear is gray. like that.