Here is one solution. You want to break the block down into strips of squares and rectangles. So draw lines down through each vertical seam. I count 13 patches. Follow the fabric placement. Some squares and rectangles will be split by a seam. Quilting or sashing around each whole square and rectangle will define the pieced square or rectangle correctly. Look at the card trick block.
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/qb/pa...902/index.html That block would have y seams if it were pieced by the fabric but it is pieced with all triangles. That is for the 1st block. The 2nd I count 8 patches.
Card Tricks is one of my favorites.
It's one of the blocks I was reasonably sure I could make too.
I'm wondering if I'm trying to run before I walk. Maybe I should sit down and make the sampler blocks I keep promising myself that I'll do, then work on this one. I'll keep designing it, but piece something else in the meantime.
Nahhh.
I'm the gal that when the others in class were making rag quilts for their first quilts decided I was going to do a lap quilt with a panel in the middle of it for my first try. LOL!
I've counted 3 times now, and I consistently count 12 patches in the first block though, so I'm doing something wrong. I was sure that this was doable, but was focused on keeping most of the blocks intact. You bring up a good point. They can "all" be pieced if need be. Especially if I quilt the grout like you were suggesting. Let me take this back into EQ and see if I can come up with a reasonably sized block this way too.
I like the design part too. The cutting and piecing, not so much, then I like the quilting part, and I'm learning to hate the binding part less each time I do it. Almost all of my quilted projects have been designed by me, or at least heavily customized before I made them.
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Scraplady
Wow, your backsplash looks remarkably similar to the one I did in my kitchen, also tumbled stone. As I was pasting up all those diamonds, I kept thinking "half square triangles, square-in-a-square..." So when it came to the focal point behind the range, I wanted to make something that looked like it could have been a quilt. I guess inspiration works both directions.
Come to think of it, that would make a nice quilt...
Scraplady, that looks gorgeous! I think it would make a really interesting quilt, and not have as many logic issues as mine seems to have. I did mine long before I knew anything at all about quilting, or even sewing for that matter. I just kept thinking "get it straight! Don't twist a tile!"