I recreated last week’s sketch in Electric Quilt 8 so that I could play around with colours. But it was too difficult to design a quilt with offset blocks – or, I was too lazy to figure out how to do it – so I ended up making minor changes to the design, creating several slightly different iterations instead. Here’s a few.

These are very basic shapes repeated in a fairly simple pattern, so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone somewhere has created this design before. I usually search through my own Pinterest boards to double-check that I’m not posting something that’s similar to anyone else’s work: I don’t want to tread on anyone’s toes, and I’ve got plenty of other designs that I can post instead. I couldn’t find anything the same or similar, but of course, my boards aren’t exhaustive – how could they be, with so many amazing quilts out there?

Treating this more as a block-based design and alternating the block colouring makes it a bit more complex, with a lot more movement.

I can’t decide which one I like more!

There are a few ways these designs could be made into quilts. Probably the easiest would be to work on point: tilt your head 45 degrees to the left (or right) and you’ll see that it’s just a grid of squares – some solid, some half-square triangles, and some quarter-square triangles. Easy peasy!