It took me ages to decide which version to show you first today, and I’m still second-guessing myself. I love all of this week’s sketches!

The fundamental design of this week’s sketch is the same as last week’s, but the blocks are set in a standard layout instead of on point. And I’ve changed the colouring to emphasise a different shape – the dark blue shapes that combine to form a lovely curvy four-pointed background to each flower (which in turn combine to create a lovely scalloped edge to the whole design). Can you see them? (In the bottom right image, below, they’re in white instead of dark blue.)

I like this multicolour palette – so bright and happy! – but I prefer the alternating colour/white flowers of the first version, which let your eye rest a bit while maintaining the repetition of the flower blocks.

Different parts of the design can be coloured to move the emphasis around – in the next version, I’ve added another layer of squares to the edges of the design, which I think helps bring them to the foreground.

Similarly, removing other elements helps to emphasise those curvy shapes. Here are a few versions where I’ve eliminated more and more bits.

The design also works with a simpler palette. In both versions below, I’ve used a lighter colour for the background and a darker colour for the squares and diamonds, but I think the reverse would work just as well.

This week’s sketch could be made into a quilt using mostly quarter-circle (or drunkard’s path) units. Some of the versions shown here would also require a small number of squares and/or rectangles.