Disappearing 9-patch

The 9-patch is typically one of the very first blocks you learn as a quilter.  I think back to my first experiment with the 9-patch and cringe a little.  I think my very first time doing it was making a baby blanket for Little Man. 

As you become more advanced you try to spruce it up a bit and make things a bit more fancy, but there's something so fundamental and useful about the 9-patch that you never really leave it.  The July blocks for the Building Blocks Quilt Along gave a fun little twist to this classic block. (Yes, I'm a month behind on the quilt along.  It's been a bust Summer)

You make the block like normal, but instead of stopping there you cut them in 4ths and rearrange them to make this block.  It's a fun change up to a classic.