I often challenge myself by taking or making a single quilt block in my EQ7 quilt software…and seeing how many different quilts I can create out of that one block.  My personal rules are that the colors must remain the same but the size of the blocks can differ or the orientation of the quilt can differ (such as a horizontal quilt versus an on-point quilt).

Wanna play this Quilt Block Challenge game with me?

For this demonstration, I have chosen one well-known quilt block – the Dresden Flower fan:

And the proof is in the pudding…10 different layouts with the same exact block:

The quilted moral of this story?  Create the quilt blocks you love and place them in your quilt the way you love to see them displayed.  There is no right or wrong.  There are only your personal rules…and your creativity shining through!