Disappearing 9 Patch Version 3

For ideas about how to use the simple Nine Patch block to make beautiful quilts have a look at:

Nine Patch Panache: 45 Nine-Patch Projects (Quilting)

All Fabric cut on the AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter

Summertime Blues

Earlier this year I started experimenting with the Disappearing 9 patch block and quickly became hooked.  The first quilt top I made was called Spring Exuberance and I enjoyed making the top so much I decided to make it the first in a series.  I then made a table topper where the blocks were arranged in a different pattern and now i am onto version 3.

When I was at the Festival of Quilts recently I bought some bundles of fat quarters from Lady Sew & Sew one of which was 10 FQs of various blues.  I have set one aside to be part of the binding and used the other nine to make this quilt top.

Following on from Spring Exuberance and taking into account the weather we have had the past few weeks I named this one Summertime Blues.

One of the many things I love about the Disappearing 9 Patch is how quickly it all goes together.  Especially as I used my Accuquilt Go! for the initial cutting out.  I used the 6.5" strip cutter to start with and then the 6.5" square.  Each block has nine different fabrics.  The hardest part was deciding where toplace the different fabrices within the block but once that was done sewing the 9 patch together, cutting through the middle in each direction, rearraging the sub-blocks, resewing the sub-blocks and then sewing together the completed blocks for the top was all done in an afternoon.

Thoughts on Quilting the Top

I have time to plan the quilting as I need to buy wadding and I will not have a chance to do that until the end of the month.  I'm tempted to do a simple all-over grid pattern again as it lets the fabric speak for itself but then again those rectangles look as though they are crying out for something more obvious than just a grid.  I would love to have your opinion on how to quilt this top.  Plain and simple or something fancy?