This is not exactly the same, but if you don't make it into 4 pieces and use three, it will be the same. Here is the link:http://www.clothworks.com/pattern_download.asp?ID=216

I'm trying to do it with charms, not tubes

it's not hard, as you said, but you can't do it and keep it the same size. you have to lose some to seam allowances.
you would lose .5" on the stripe part and .5" on the other part, altogether a lot. try it on paper.

It looks llike a block from the nickle quilt books. Half sqare triangls with a smaller square sewn to one corner and pressed back.

that looks like the block that Rhoda is teaching on the EQ5 tut,go to archive for last monday,the 14th and check out her quilt block,

d.swindle

looks like a hst block, but then one side has a smaller square layed on corner, sewn on diagonal folded back and made to look like a strip triangle.......I guess you would have to do the smaller square corner consistently on the same side of that hst to get the then finished first block (4 hst joined together) That is how I dissected it.
Geri

Thanks Amma. I'll be trying this soon.

This is an easy block to make, I have done it with 2 - 2 1/2" strips sewn rights side together up one side then placed on top of a 4 1/2" strip right sides together and sew up both sides. WHen tube is made you then cut triangles out and this enables you to open up the triangle up to make the block, you can set the blocks in either a square pattern or play with them and you can make a neat step down pattern. good luck and have fun

Check out the U-Tube tutorials from Missouri Star Quilt Co. They have one very similar to it that I have done but do not remember the name. Hope you can find it.

Cut 2 squares of equal size and draw a line diagonal from one corner to the opposite corner on the back of one of them. Put right sides together. Then stitch 1/4" on each side of the drawn line. Cut on the line. Then take one smaller square for the corner. Draw a diagonal from one corner to the opposite corner on the back of the smaller square. Place the smaller square on corner. Have the diagonal line going the same direction of the first HST. Stitch on the line of smaller square. Trim to 1/4" seam. When you trim the material, you want the small triangle to fold back towards the corner. You will also trim the corner away from the HSt you first sewed. I hope this makes sense.

this looks like a quilt I made called a lattice. I got the tute from a blog called "the Blue Chair". It went together quickly. I made mine with a white background (because that was what we had from donations of fabric) and the strips were all 2.5 X 10 scraps.

KR is right on. The block is so simple that it looks complicated.

It's a simple Scrappity Doo Dah block (among many other names this block has). Great designs from the same pattern block just by increasing the size of the middle strip. It s a free pattern from McCalls.
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/artic...rappity_do_dah

It's tube quilting or "Chop Suey" Just set the blocks the same way.

It's a variation of a stack n whack. Stack the 5" charms about 6 deep (as many as you can easily rotary cut without disturbing the placement of the stack. Cut in two places so you have the three pieces...then you spread the stacks apart..take one piece off the center strip stack, put it on the bottom of the stack....Now sew the three pieces back together, all the centers will be a different color than the two side pieces, they will match each other.

Not sure that's what you are talking about...but that's how I'd do it..

i just saw it somewhere.....you sew the strips together and some how cut them on an angle into retangles. will search around for it.

I would make half square triangles, then add squares on the corners, as you would, if you were making a snowball block.

The square on the right is what you get when cutting a triangle from a "tube" when you are making a tube-quilt.

See the following links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWSp0mTTqE

The above link is neat and easy to follow. HOWEVER, She tells you to cut the third strip 4 inches wide. This is wrong.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/links-r...be-t99597.html

Have you seen the you tube tutorial by MissouriQuilt co. about tube quilt? You sew one strip the width of the widest half, the width of the desired fabric, then the two strips that will make the other half of the block the width of the fabric and then place the two together strips on the wide strip right sides together and sew both sides of the strip sets together and press to set seams and then cut them with a 45degree line on your ruler. I am not explaining this very well, I'm sorry and I don't know how to cut n paste the youtube address, but if you go to google and put youtube n then quilting videos missouriquiltco and it should pop up, or go to missouri quilt co website via google n check out the tutorials list theere. Sorry if I've confused everyone ;)