Sleuthing a Block

There's a block I found on Pinterest that's haunted me for a long time.

At least a year.

It was published in a magazine in 2012,

along with the tutorial.

I've searched for the magazine on Ebay with no luck,

so I finally pulled out some scraps and tried to dissect the block to make my own.

Here's the block as it's found on Pinterest:

I just love the look when the white right angles meet up as they sit next to another block!

I figured this would make a cool quilt using scraps.

I've got plenty of them!

As the block went into beta mode, I came up with this:

It was OK, but not the same dimensions as the Pinterest original,

so back to the cutting board I went.

I made the white strips wider and the colored strips narrower.

My next prototype came out perfect:

I felt like Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory!

I broke the code!

I'm not exactly sure what I'll do now that I've figured it out.

It will stay in the back on my mind and on my to-do list,

but it will definitely be used soon!

*Day 29 of 31 Days of Blogging Challenge