#quilt block pattern

I made a thing! A quilt! It's not even half bad!

A while ago I suggested to make a quilt block out of the stomachion, an ancient puzzle. The idea being that all the same pieces can be arranged in hundreds of different ways. Endless possibilities!

Here's the pattern: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1weC-IQvsRzT-LH1NUlPDYfxV-axT-w/view?usp=sharing

So, this is a Stomachion:

It's a puzzle that goes back to Archimedes. Not to be confused with the Tangram, a similar puzzle. The joke with the Stomachion is that there's hundreds of possibilities to put the 14 pieces into a square.

I thought that would make an interesting quilt block, or several hundred.

So I made a pattern here. 6mm (1/4") seam allowance, finished block should come out 36 cm (14,2"). The pattern has 12 pieces, including 3 that are double, marked in my photos above. The original Stomachion has 14 pieces, but some of those are always together, so I fused them for simplicity's sake.

Anybody wanna try it? I'd be very interested if it actually works, but I also have a lot of stuff going on right now. Also I'm not good enough at quilting yet.

Free Orbit Quilt Pattern by Becky Tillman Petersen

104” x 104”