Elegant and fast...
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/144467100521315327/

This is one of my favorite quickies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxC-0T5lXw4

check out the 10 minute or 5 minute blocks. They both work up fast.

Oh, this one is pretty and would really showcase big prints well. I also think it fits the bill for simple and elegant. Nice find.

Thank you, everyone! I love fresh vanilla stylish w/ the rectangles and squares very much! I was not able to find the pattern for it!! Would you think 18"x 10" for the rectangles and 10"x 10" for the squares with 2-1/2" strips between? I am definitely leaning toward that one...thought I also love the idea of 18" squares on point if could frame them in ivory. also how many different prints would you say are used in fresh vanilla? I know some of them repeat..would you guess there 8 or maybe 10 different prints on that one? I so much thank you all..had looked at sooo many google images and nothing at all like I wanted. I knew to ask here for help!

After doing a bit of googling, it looks like the long rectangles are 8.5x20.5 and the squares would then be cut 8.5x8.5.

see

https://mngirltx.wordpress.com/category/quilts/

and

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-...an-print-throw

I would suggest you decide on the finished size of your quilt then draw it on graph paper
or spreadsheet and fit the squares and triangles to match that size. Have fun.

I made a king for my daughter a couple years ago. The pattern is Modern Thinking. Very easy pattern. Best to you.

Yes, that would be a good choice. Also, check out Eleanor Burns. She has a nine patch that ends up with two nine patches being made at one time. The colors are reversed, so if one 9 patch starts with the top row as beige-white-beige, the second one will be white-beige-white. The good thing is you get two 9 patches done quickly. (not explaining this well.)

justflyin, thank you so much for the links and cutting guide!! in viewing some of these made up, I believe I should enlarge the scale for the king bed..it won't be as "busy". Bnuen, "modern thinking" just went on my bucket list in fact I've book-marked FIVE quilts from this thread. When planning a king, due to cost and the fact that this quilt needs to be 126" wide to generously cover the drop (the drop is the reason i can't just go buy one), it needs to be easy on the eye and have a timeless quality to it. The current one I made was a huge undertaking and expense too so i think its wise to make another - possibly 2 more to rotate. Its so huge that the real expense comes in sending it out to be long-armed. I guess i don't want the one i have now (and like!) to wear out too quickly!