Just like last week’s sketch, this week’s uses a unit featuring concentric diamonds. The only difference is that I’ve arranged the units on point.

But what a difference it makes!

This week’s sketch reminds me a little of Sunday sketch #418, : they’re both two-colour designs featuring a stripy unit on point. But this design introduces a few more angles and has a bit more energy and movement, I think.

The design works well in lots of two-colour palettes. Whether the foreground is lighter or darker than the background, the design can really pop with the right colours.

   

   

   

I tried more than three colours, but I don’t love these ones as much. Maybe I just haven’t chosen the right colours, but the use of a larger palette just seems to diminish the overall effect somehow.

I could try two-colour palettes all day long though!

Like last week’s design, I think this week’s sketch would be best made into an actual quilt using templates and paper piecing. How many sections you’d need per block would depend on how they’re constructed. I designed this sketch on point, but you could tweak the design so it’s actually a slightly different block arranged in a standard layout.

Your eye probably automatically shows you the horizontal and vertical lines in the last few versions, above; they outline what could easily be a single unit of diagonal lines emanating from a corner point. I designed my units so the angled lines don’t actually converge at that point; I wouldn’t want to deal with so many seams meeting in one place. I think each square unit would still need two sections, and there’d be the need to match points when joining adjacent units. But I’d have to try drafting a template to see if I’m right. Paper-piecing does mess with my brain sometimes!

[Edited to add (12 Jan 2025): Libs Elliott pointed out on Instagram that her fabric ‘Rays’ in her Stealth collection for Andover Fabrics featured this design. Unfortunately this fabric collection is out of print, so Andover Fabrics doesn’t feature it on its website anymore. But you can spot it in this bundle on Libs’ website and still find some prints online.]