"original" what makes a design original in the first place. I don't think I have ever seen a quilt that wasn't made up of blocks from the past...The only block to me that might even be considered original would be a appliqué that the designer drew the subject from her own mind... or a paper pieced block done the same way. Take a look at the Civil War quilt made by Jane A. Stickle of Vermont. She finished the quilt in 1863 and it has over 200 blocks in it if I can remember right...they are all different, but yet you see these blocks all the time in quilts. Is it arrangement considered original then?