Arrows, this way and that.

This design started out a little… busier, but I pared it down a bit. Here are the precursor designs…

         

I think the top-right design is a bit too crowded. Maybe a better colour palette would help to differentiate between the 4 directions?

Anyway, I think I prefer a design with some of the blocks left empty. Here’s one with just two colours, crossing diagonally.

See that centre square, on point, where the blocks of different colour overlap? That’s another opportunity for some colour play. You can see it more clearly if I use a different palette.

Of course, I usually go for a regular, symmetrical design first, then follow it up with a more irregular, asymmetrical design.

 

Lots of opportunity for playing around with colour and placement!

These designs would be pretty easy to translate into a quilt pattern. The arrow heads are just triangles, and the tails are smaller triangles separated by a rectangle. The tails might be easier to make using paper-piecing to get the necessary precision.