I’m still trawling through older, unposted sketches, and found a series of related designs I did in 2024 (!). I’ll share a few this week, with more to come later this month.

I started out colouring the shapes slightly differently – ‘X’ marks the spot!

Then I alternated the colouring of the Xs, just to mix things up a bit. I like this version too.

There are so many different ways all these shapes can be coloured….

   

….Or can be removed, to create slightly different layouts.

   

But ultimately, I like how this next colour placement makes use of the transparency effect. It just has lots of movement, and different circular shapes emerge from the background. It’s like a very wonky gingham.

   

An expanded palette is also possible, but I found that it helps to have some order in the way the colours are arranged (to avoid it all becoming a bit too messy).

Then I couldn’t help it; I tried taking away some elements. I removed the corner squares and all the shapes connected diagonally to them, which left a collection of overlapping misshapen rectangles. I like how quirky and a bit ‘off’ this feels, despite being very orderly and symmetrical.

The dark pink square in the centre doesn’t really make ‘sense’ (in that it doesn’t follow any of the rules used elsewhere in the design), but I just wanted something in that empty space.

Anyway, this week’s designs could be made into a quilt using squares, half-rectangle triangles (of varying dimensions) and half-square triangles. You could probably save a few seams by making kite shapes and/or square-in-a-square units too.

I’ll share the next few iterations in next week’s blog post!