I have a magizine (QUILT) march 2010 that has this exact pattern and they call it Kaleidoscope an awesome spiral with a twist. lol
if you'd like the mag PM me

[quote=Connie in CO]I would get a plain piece of paper,12 inch square,draw the pattern on the paper.I would go down 1 1/2 inches down,over all sides.Connie in CO[/quot
You have to play with the lines until you get what you want.It would make a neat Paper pieced block.I forgot,i see you have to make another park besides the 1 1/2 mark.I see from the picture the squares are pretty big.

[quote=Connie in CO]Cool,i have that magazine also.

That's the block I linked to a couple posts up. Where did you get the photo you posted, cookiej? Surely the people in the pic (or on the site where you got it) know what the pattern is.

Can anybody figure out how much fabric you would need for this using the above scenario - looks to be 5x5 and it is a 12" finished block. Would a layer cake work or fat quarters? I don't have any version of the EQ's or maybe I could figure it out.

Using the QuiltersCache pattern where 1, 3 and 5 are solid colors and 2 and 4 are patterned....

If you are going to paper piece and use a solid color (either white or black), that solid color would need 100 small blocks.

If you cut the small blocks out and cut on the lines that would be covered with the colored fabric, I am calculating the following at 7 1/2 inch blocks to allow for some leeway when paper piecing:
40 inch wide fabric divided by 7 1/2 = 5 blocks per strip with a 2 1/2 inch left over...
100 blocks divided by 5 per strip = 20 strips at 7 1/2 inches wide each....or 150 inches/36 inches = 4.16666 yards

Depending on how wide you want the colored pieces to be, you can just cut strips that size and there would be little paper piecing waste. Part of that calculation will depend on how many colors you decide to use and whether you want the strips to be even as in QC or angled as in the first picture above. From the size of the original quilterscache pattern which is even, I would use 1 1/2 inch strips by 7 inches....and you need two per small block -- for a total of 200....

Calculating cutting the strips either way (1 1/2 wide or 7 wide), I get either 8 strips at 7 inches wide (pieces per strip = 26) for 56 inches needed OR 40 strips at 1 1/2 inches wide (pieces per strip = 5) for 60 inches needed. This assumes you use the same color all the way through.

Now if you change the width/angle of the colored pieces, all bets are off LOL! But I would still cut the basic white/black the same way....Of course you waste a bit more.....but to me that is the easy way to cut the pieces quickly.

Hope this makes sense!
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It does look very similar to the Endless Chain but the colors on it are much narrower than the picture that cookiej36 shows.

I'm attaching a chart for figuring out yardages that I got off some site, don't remember which one though. Hope it helps someone.

somehow this post was posted in 2 places, I have the pattern in a magizine if you are intrested.


http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-102236-1.htm#2602714

Thanks again for finding the pattern for me! I really appreciate it!
Leslie