The last two quilts I’ve made have featured mostly curves, so I’m on a bit of a curve kick at the moment.

I began with a basic four-petal flower block, set on point. I’ve used this shape before (see Sunday sketch #366), but not as much as I thought I had. It feels really retro and happy, so a good starting point!

Each of the petals is made up of four quarter-circles or drunkard’s path units, so a natural iteration is to use a different colour in one of those. That introduces some new lines that create secondary shapes (squares) between the flowers. (I also changed the shade of pink that I used – you can see the difference in the background colours of these two versions).

After that, I played with colour placement a bit more. I also added curved corners to the blocks, and used different colours for the block background and the quilt background. Depending on what colours are used where, different shapes get pushed to the background or pulled to the foreground.

I’ll show you more designs along those lines next week. For now, here’s another version that makes the most of those concave curve-based squares (and partial pointy shapes) between the flower blocks. I’ll play with those more next week too.

This week’s design is a lot like Sunday sketch #271 – so much so that I’m surprised I didn’t do a curvy version back then. Both designs have a (pseudo) sawtooth star as the central motif and make a feature of those interstitial squares.

These designs could all be made using quarter-circles or drunkard’s path units.  Lots and lots of them! Oh, and because the blocks are set on point, you’d also need corner and setting triangles.