How I Use BlockBase: A New Pattern?

Barb Fife used Jelly Roll precut strips

to piece this quilt from my Morris Apprentice print collection

from last year.

I wanted to find a name in my BlockBase program

for PC's. But when I looked it up I couldn't find the exact design.

It should be right next to BlockBase #1110, a four-patch made of two rectangles, but the published names only show a kind of stairstep shading arrangement rather than a pinwheel. All the published 20th-century names have to do with stairs.

Endless Stairs
London Stairs
Winding Stairway

I used a variation of Endless Stairs in my Grandmother's Choice sampler last May.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com/2013/05/39-endless-stairs-rank-and-rights.html

Endless Stairs by Becky Brown

And there are plenty of variations with three strips in each of the four-patches all numbered 1111 in BlockBase.

Barb said she tried the stairstep idea but preferred rotating the squares around to make a pinwheel. With the dark and white contrast it works quite well, creating a tessellated design where it's hard to figure out the block at first glance.

Did Barb invent a new pattern?

It's hard to believe no one ever did this simple design before---or at least published it with a name. But since Barb invented it she gets to name it. She's thinking about Spinning Sevens and planning to work out a pattern to sell.

UPDATE: I figured somebody had to have published this interesting shading. Mary Says Sew sez Jackie Robinson in her Tessellations book published it as "A Tess Called Edna." So I am giving it the BB#1110b

and crediting Jackie. If Barb publishes hers we will have two names.