Beautiful quilt!

Thanks for all of the information!

Thanks for posting this!

love it - great colours

Very cool!

Look up dunster on the member's list. She has this pattern for sale.

Tried Ericas.com, tried Toadusew, nothing, no pattern for Think Outside the Box. Help!

Thank you for the instructions and pictures!!

I love the quilt...thanks for sharing the instructions!

I love it, I think I'm going to give it a try . Love your colors, since they are very important for the outcome, that part will take me some time to decide.
Thank you for sharing !

I would enter formulas and square/rectangle requirements into a spreadsheet, add more formulas and divide by 36. Gets closer numbers than EQ and it provides the cutting plan. I love spreadsheets and use them for many things.
Here is a small example:

fabric needed length how many widths

White 2.5 8 5 42/8 100/5 =?? 27 inches or 1/3 yd and so on for each color and shape, then make your spreadsheet add them up and convert to yardage.

I didn't do any real math here, but you just need to remember "cuts across" and ??widths are up and will give the ydg

Thank you moreland..you have inspired me! I want to make a quilt with that "look"...right now! This will not be added to my ever-growing bucket list...I want to do it now! So I got some fabric and hit a stumbling block!! I don't know which ones to use so I came here for more guidance from you and other incredibly talanted and creative quilters on the QB. I am posting the picture with options. Consider the fabric labeled left to right, 1 thru 5. #5 is my choice for the tiny little center square. The other 2 in the 2nd picture are options as well!



Please help...thank you all so much in advance!

Thanks for sharing. Since I first saw the picture, I've been trying to figure out how it was done. So simple!! Now if I can bookmark this, I'll have achieved something today. It is a beautiful quilt.

Missgigglewings, I like your first four fabrics ... just not sure what I would recommend for the center - maybe something a little darker than fabric #5, but that's me. I look forward to see your quilt.

This is my definition of a foreign language!

Moreland....
 

I did a quick mock up, but don't look too close....Can you tell me if it will pop the way yours did? Or least do you think the black/blue floral print is too much?

I sent a PM to missgigglewings but for others reading this, I suggested that missgigglewings drop the medium blue fabric. Place the lighter floral next to the darker floral, and insert the light overall floral from the second group of fabrics in the block as the second row, thus getting a better light to dark value range. Right now the solid blue stands out too much, so instead of the eye going smoothly from center to outer edge, it stops at the medium blue before moving on to the rest of the block.

Very nice
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

new block
 

ok..here's the 2nd color combo. Again, I did it in a hurry, so it is not straight on..like a real block! lol

so, what do you think now moreland? And anyone else who wants to chime in...

Side by side
 

I decided to put them side by side just for comparison!

It looks better when you enlarge your page...the one with the blue looks like 2 layers floating...hmmm.

So great of you to share this great design.

This is the same pattern I used to make my quilt. I loved how mine turned out. I think my pattern is called four square and its by Cozy Quilt designs..

It's Think Outside the Block ............ you have to scroll down on ericas website quite a ways!!!!

beautiful!!!love that pattern.

Off to shop my stash to make this...thank you soo much!

Still on my ''to-do'' list. Guess it'll have to be after Chrstmas ---- thanks for sharing yours!

There is another pattern for this also--called---Flying Colors by Georgette Dell'Orco
It finishes at 64 x 64----cozy quilt desisng. I don,t know if this helps or not. I did up this quilt and am going to do another for myself as my GD wanted the first one for Christmas.
Good Luck

thanks for posting this as I was thinking of making this quilt in the new year so now I just have to find the perfect fabrics! Only one question would you paper piece this?

I loved this pattern when I saw it ,bought it to attempt one day

wow,I want to try this also.I still have tubs full of 2.5 inch strips ready to use.

I love this pattern and as I said in the first posting, I made one in red/black/white for my DD for Christmas last year. I usually need patterns for my quilts as the math makes my head hurt! I will probably make another one eventually, but not right away. For those of you attempting this quilt, please make a mock up block first and put it on your design wall and look at it for a while. You don't want to make a bunch and then decide there is a color in there that doesn't work. It really is an easy pattern and i love the 3D effect. I called mine Stacked Crackers. Haha.

I can see that the color choice is important the get the 3D effect. Are there any "rules" that would help us pick the right fabrics, such as color values?
Thanks

I am going to atempt this pattern,will post pic's when I have a few blocks done

I love your quilt, thanks for breking it down for us.

love this!

Thanks for posting the information. I love your quilt too!

Beautiful quilt.

I love this quilt. The effect is amazing. Great work.

Thanks for this mini-tute. I have always liked this pattern and now I know how to do it, now I just have to figure out the crappy math part.