I don’t often use prints in my designs (or my quilts), but this week I picked out some basic blender prints in EQ8 to subtly differentiate between the blocks.

This week’s sketch is a bit like Sunday sketch #162, but there are four dark corners in each block instead of two, two corners of the block are curved instead of square, and the sashing between the blocks is thinner than the rectangular parts of the block (rather than being the same thickness).

Because of the four dark corners in this week’s sketch, the design works well for a bit of transparency. But also just a two-colour palette (three if you count the background).

A bigger palette works too.

I also tried colouring in the full blocks. I haven’t decided yet how I feel about this one! I like how it emphasises the dark squares and that effect of that white grid in the foreground. But I kinda feel like the black squares in each block make less ‘sense’ like this.

I tried switching some to curves, to create interstitial circle rather than squares.

This last version sent me in a whole new direction, which I’ll share next week.

This week’s sketch could be made using rectangles, squares and quarter-circle units (or drunkard’s paths), plus some sashing.

Update (28 Feb 2024): I’ve just discovered that these designs are very similar to a quilt pattern released by Lynne Goldsworthy (@lilysquilts) in (at least) 2015. I can’t find The Tube Quilt pattern anywhere online anymore, but it may still be out there?