Blocks & layouts

jacob's ladder?, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I was trying to figure out the name of this block - it's not a Jacob's Ladder, is it? I think Jacob's Ladder looks sort of like this but is more complex. Anyway, this seems to be the block in the Victorian Ladies quilt. (Look a couple of entries down.) And then it is sashed with the same kind of block that you would use in a Storm at Sea Quilt - which is what I think of as a Peaky and Spikeblock - and that's what makes the stars. And the ladies themselves are the sashing squares. Does that make sense?

(I don't know if you normally do it differently if you're making a Storm at Sea quilt, but the way I know to make a block like the sashing blocks is to use a tri-recs tool. Which is what I used for the units in my quilt, too, but they are an alternate block rather than a sashing there.)


Aside: Does anybody have EQ6? Is it notably more user-friendly than EQ5? Because I played around with this in EQ5, and I did get as far as making this little block, but I couldn't figure out how to put the block into a layout, and I ended up just getting frustrated. Which is pretty much what happens every time I try to use it.