This week’s designs are the last in a series that were prompted by Tara Glastonbury’s ‘design from a brief’ challenge, which she’s doing this year on her blog and in her column for Make Modern magazine. Check it out if you haven’t already – it’s a fun way to play with quilt designs and cultivate more creativity.

The basic block in this week’s design is the same as last week’s, with one minor tweak. Can you spot it?

In two diagonally opposite corners, I’ve added a new curve that cuts into the full circle there. In the version above, those new curves create the centres of the flowers; the other corners of the block create those interstitial stars.

I removed some blocks in the version above, so you could see them a bit more clearly. Here’s the version with the block tiled across the full design. It’s a bit busy for me, but I still kinda like it!

A two-colour palette is possible, but then you get those areas where the interstitial stars are a checkerboard colouring, which I don’t like.

Or the design can be rotated so that the interstitial stars are all one colour, and it’s the flower centres that are checkerboard-coloured. I don’t mind this version, actually! It’s busy, but energetic and fun.

Here’s the three-colour version again, but where the flowers have petals of two colours.

There are enough elements in this design to provide a lot of colour play. You could use a ton of colour (it could get kinda psychedelic) or stick to a smaller palette. And like last week, the construction would just require a lot of half-circles and quarter-circles (or drunkard’s path units).

I love a good flower design – they always make me happy!