quilt on graph paper

This was my experiment. I started with the pink square (ten squares wide corner to corner) without the X through it, "sewed" blue to it and "exploded" that (ten squares wide side to side). Then did the same with the green (20 squares corn to corner). Then made another square the same way, but with purple instead of green. These are sewn together with the purple one "exploded" (20 squares wide side to side). This is sewn to one exactly like it (40 squares wide corner to corner). Then another exactly like that (40 squares wide side to side). Two more times will end up a 80x80 square, so if you started out with a 5" square corner to corner this would be a 40" square minus seam allowances with the pattern across and down repeated four times. The corners will always be color started with. 

Or you could add the purple square to the green square (but explode the green) and then sew those together like a regular quilt.





Now I just need some fabric to try this out with. But really if I was going big (I need a super light quilt for my bed as the weather thinks it's already summer) I'd want to try it with panes (the thin strips of fabric I put in the little quilt I made). I'm still trying to figure out what that will look like. Or maybe I'll just be surprised.