What about 1/2 square triangles, with roman stripe blocks separating...
Puts me in mind of patriotic shoo fly or open barn door...
If the math works out so that they sew up same size....
then this would be simple enough, and you put together in 9 patch style, and could make center block plain solid block.
If you can see 1/2 sq and stripe makes barn door
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