Originally Posted by laynak

It looks like a log cabin around the focus fabric, perhaps courthouse steps? I'd use a 6" or 8" square and add 2" strips around. I'd make 4 of these and cut one into 1/4's to create the small insets. Actually, there are 4 patches used to connect the 3 major 'squares' so this would need to be accounted for on two sides of each of the major squares. I don't have the photo of the pattern up as I write this so I hope this provides enough info to go on. Might be an experiment but hopefully it'll work!