The INTRIGUE block is one I have been playing with a lot this past year for community service quilts. I was doing it to use fun focus fabrics in the middle, and then framing it with my favorite 5"x 9 1/2" slices. It makes a big 18" block--fast. Four to six blocks make a baby quilt.
CRIMSON GLORY is the same block, but cut smaller to make good use of fat quarters.
For INTRIGUE, I went back to the big 18". It can use a 10" square pack, like a Layer Cake. My model used the Pomegranate Tonga Squares. The quilt uses 36 of the 40 squares that usually come in those packs, and the fabrics are placed randomly. We can also use 12 Fat Quarters. In that case, I make 6 each of two blocks--it would be hard to make 12 fabrics random.
The Centers of the blocks use 1 yard of fabric. I used 1/3 yard each of 3 fabrics, because I had 3 I loved with the batiks. You could also use some of your leftover 10" squares and scraps--or even orphan blocks that are 9 1/2" from raw edge to raw edge. Or you could use embroidered blocks or vintage linens.
Here are a couple of my little community service quilts--fast, fast and uses up stash.
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