Agree! the OP's repeat is too small, and so, it doesn't give much variation and why you are seeing it looking so much alike.

The fabrics posted here are great examples.

Although, I'd be hesitant that the black one may have too much black in the background .... though it may be very interesting. Love the yellow one!

Use two mirrors, to help predict whether a fabric will work for OBW.

Thank you everyone so far for your help, I guess I'll have to dig up another fabric, like that will be hard.lol Keep the samples coming in re: to what I can now do with all of the triangles I now have and any other samples of fabric that I might use. I'll post later tomorrow what I have in my stash and maybe make a decision that way for OBW with everyones help. Talk about UFO's stacking up. I guess thats what happens when you live a couple 100 miles from Roswell, NM. lol

I also like the one that BKrenning posted it uses the triangles to great advantage and you could still use them as the centres or outside the star.

I plan on making one of these triangle quilts. How did you make the white border? Love your quilt!!

Yup.

What you *could* do is alternate them with a coordinating fabric that is more bold, that way it is still OBW but it "slows down" the quilt some...

Looks like you did a great job. I think (MO) that putting a plain fabric around the blocks would make them stand out better.

Ok here are some of the fabrics that I have in my stash which 1 will work better as a OBW.

The first would be awesome ... so much happening there, and so many colours!!!

If you want to see how they'd look, take two mirrors and stand them together, move them in closer til you see the six reflections. Or of considering 4PP, stand them at right angles to get 4 reflections.

Do you have atleast six repeats?
And are the repeats at least 12" apart?

#1 or #3 are my vote, if you have enough "repeats" of the design...

#1 is my choice.