Rectangular Blocks

The Rectangular Block category in my picture files is pretty slim.

There are not many....

Which is a little surprising since rectangles will

tessellate as well as squares (Any 4-sided shape

can be repeated without gaps in the pattern)

The quilt at the top of the page is a Chinese Coins

pattern, a strip quilt that has been turned into a rectangular

block by matching the strip color in a regular pattern.

If you made every 6th strip black it would look like a rectangular block.

Kind of related to rectangular string quilt blocks

Any strip quilt could probably be turned into a rectangular

block; here's a flying geese

I have two examples of this strip of squares pieced

as rectangular blocks.

which might make the pattern easier

to handle than long strips.

Some rectangular blocks are just squares squeezed into rectangles.

Any log cabin could be a rectangle.

Here's a double four patch made of rectangles rather than squares

You could squeeze any square block in EQ8

into a rectangle twice as long as it is wide.

You can also create rectangular blocks by cutting a classic square pattern in half.

It's half of a Rolling Star set with an equal size alternate rectangle.

BlopckBase 3805 a and b

Collection of the Kentucky Historical Society

It's hard to see the pattern here but I think it's half a star pieced of diamonds.

Something like this

just stacked up.

You could probably do this with any square block with a central

focus, like a Dresden Plate. I erased half of the block in EQ8

and rotated the blocks around.

A rectangular block set with a rectangle

Some of these work better than others.