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Originally Posted by dunster (Post 6195426)

I know this pattern by another name - scrapaholic. The block is actually 1/4 of the block that everyone is looking at, and it is incredibly flexible. I've posted two quilts made from different settings of this block - http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...k-t216883.html and http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...d-t207658.html. The quilt below is the setting shown in Kathy's picture, and the block below that is the block used. As you can see, it's incredibly easy to make, and great for scrappy quilts.

I made a Tonga Coastal without a pattern, and had the "block" wrong when I started. I couldn't pick out the block at first. The blocks we "make" are not always the blocks we "see". If the picture does not come with this quote, refer to post no. 15 for the block.

I also dislike snowballing corners if I can make HST's for that. Snowballing wastes so much fabric, and if I sew those little corners to make small HST's, I just get more scraps to use up. That can be fun- - - for a while.

I believe this is the free pattern. I've made a tablerunner on the same principle from a similar pattern. http://quiltpatterns.s3.amazonaws.co...0827435304.pdf

I have clicked on all the reference site and the diagram in #15 makes the most sense. The "split" reference is just plain crazy and such a waste of fabric.

Another example of how two different quilts made from the same design look so different depending on the color variation.

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Originally Posted by SSK (Post 6195392)

She probably designed the new and easier way of making it, not the pattern.

I agree with SSK.

The directions from chiclets is so easy to understand. Thanks for the link.

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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie (Post 6195275)

I can't imagine why this is called a split 9 patch. It's simply square after square with some squares being made of two triangles.

The main block is a very simple 4 x 4 patch with the adjoining blocks containing the HST to make the points. And 4 patch cornerstones.

Maybe I'm missing something

If you are, I am, too, because I had precisely the same reaction. Where is the split? If I were making this, I'd chain piece squares and HSTs. But I'm self taught and don't use patterns so maybe there's an easier better way that I just don't see.

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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie (Post 6195275)

Exactly. I don't call this one a split 9 patch. It is a 16 patch with some nice sashings which give it the effect. At least that is how I've made it.

I just sandwiched one (today) I made last fall from this type of pattern:

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Thanks for the chiclets pattern. I know I saved it before but now have a file for patterns I would like to make. It will only take me 100 years to do all of them!! ha ha Have a great weekend!