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does this block setting have a name?

You have an equal number of square blocks of two different sizes.

Join them together in the obvious way - each small block has four of the large ones pinwheeling round it. The result is a top with a zigzag edge and all the blocks slanted with respect to the overall shape. I got the idea from Grunbaum and Shepherd's book "Tilings and Patterns" but surely it must have been used in quilting many times before. What do you call it?

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I'd need a photo or diagram. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

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Assuming you're using a fixed-width font... A's and a's are the large blocks (here 6x6), B's are the small ones (3x3):

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==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

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it looks almost like a "turning 20" or a bargello. hard to tell.

amy in CNY

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amy in CNY

If I understand your description and your illustration, I think it is a variation of an on-point setting without the setting triangles on the sides.

Julia >>> You have an equal number of square blocks of two different sizes. >>>

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Julia in MN

It's an interesting pattern, but I don't know the name of it.

Debra in VA See my quilts at:

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