Originally Posted by
JustAbitCrazy
In Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, it has three names: The X Quisite (from Ladies Art Company), A Quilt of Variety (from Kansas City Star), and Floating Star (from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine). (The blocks form what look like slanted white stars.)
In Brackman's, Lozenge is a six sided block like the blue portion of that block above, without the white corners. Those six sided blocks are arranged to nestle together like a tessellating pattern.
thanks for the clear explanation... i would have guessed lozenge