I found it!! I had saved a picture of it in my pictures files...now to find a pattern!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8qtGRJX58...600/Laced+Star,+FriendShip+Star,+Card+Trick+Variation.JPG
it's the top block in the picture....if I remember correctly this was never a quilt, it was in a contest for painting blocks on barns or something like that...
it has a very distinct amish look to me...i wanted to make it as a large one block quilt, then quilt it heavily...