It’s been ages since I’ve done anything with triangles, so I created a quick brief for myself: design something with triangles! And this is what I came up with 🙂

There’s not a whole lot to say about this one! It’s all about the colour, I think.

I feel like I use this concept a lot with two-colour quilts, where I start with one colour at the top and end with the other colour at the bottom. See Sunday sketches #407, #430 and #432, for example. I guess Breakthrough uses it too.

I think the design works in a different orientation, too. Although this sorta loses some of the larger triangle shapes that emerge in the original.

I’m not sure how easy this week’s sketch would be to make into a quilt. It’s essentially diamonds made up of four triangles (one half-rectangle triangle unit plus separate triangles on either side). I don’t know if the HRTs are a 2:1 ratio, because I designed the quilt in a weird way in Electric Quilt 8 (starting with square blocks then inserting them in a diamond layout, which then squishes the block into that shape). I’d probably have to make a template for this one, but it would be quick to paper-piece, I think. This layout is only 26 triangle-y diamonds, and then the rest is plain diamonds or larger pieces of yardage.