Originally Posted by Janis

I first learned about the D9P on this forum, and decided to use it for my twin grand daughter's quilts. I used all of the same variety of fabrics in both quilts, but put my 9 patches together randomly with the fabrics for each quilt. I had mostly light colors in the corners. After cutting up the multi color 9 patches, and putting them back randomly, I appliqued things one might find in their back yard, as I later called it, in the large squares, randomly. I used a squirrel, a bee, a butterfly, a lady bug, a bird, a worm (although some think it might be a snake), a dragonfly, a multi circle creature that has a head and the rest of it's body made out of circles..I don't know what to call it, but you get the idea. I also appliqued 2 overlaping hearts on a square near the center of the quilts, one a darker pink and the other a lighter pink on each quilt signifying that the girls were twins. Of course one had the darker color on top and the other had the lighter pink on top. I had to do the applique after the quilt was sewn together so I would have all of the blocks I was using for the applique right side up. I outlined quilted the bugs and animals and in the large empty squares I hand doodled a flower and hand quilted that. I also used embroidery floss to make eyes, antennas and also faces on some of the bugs and animals and did that after I had my quilt dancwiches so I could hide my knots in the batting. In the rectangles, I drew and quilted a long backward S like shape. My quilting on the borders was a long swooping wavy line with doodle flowers along the way. I hope this might give others ideas of how to do the D9P with a little twist.

Originally Posted by Janis

I can't post pictures yet. I did send a picture to a friend on the board. I'll ask her if she can scan in pictures of the quilts for me.
I'll copy this link when I ask her, and maybe she can post them here.