Category: Sunday sketch

Sunday sketch #24

In this party season, a little storm of confetti (or maybe snow, for those in the northern hemisphere)…

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Each parallelogram is in a 3 x 2 unit, which is offset from the next unit by a 2 x 1 rectangle. The parallelograms could be constructed by flanking a 3 x 2 rectangle with two 3 x 1 triangles (paper-piecing for accuracy, perhaps). Or, pair two 3:1 half-rectangle triangles back to back, which introduces new colour/fabric possibilities to the design:

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The good news is, Bloc Loc makes a 3:1 half-rectangle triangle ruler – in two sizes!

 

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Sunday sketch #23

Simple stripes can create a vast number of diverse designs. (Check out my ‘Strips & Stripes’ Pinterest board for a few hundred examples.)

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I’m embracing the chaos this week with a little improv-style design of strips and stripes. Depending on the colour scheme, the design could be reminiscent of a waterfall (blues on blue), the night sky (bright whites or yellows on midnight blue), Klimt (rich jewel tones)… or something else entirely.

Update (May 2017): Interstellar, a quilt pattern based on this design, has been published in Down Under Quilts, issue 179.

Sunday sketch #22

Following the theme of what shapes can fit in a 2 x 2 square (see #11, #12, #15, #16, #18, #20…), I’ve been playing around with half-rectangle triangles again. I tried to prevent adjacent shapes from joining on their horizontal or vertical lines, but a few overlaps snuck in (e.g. fifth row down, about two thirds of the way across… a shaded and an unshaded triangle have their backs together).

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I tried to avoid the heaviness of those adjoining shapes by shading in the back/forth triangles while leaving the up/down triangles empty (the design could also be rotated 90 degrees to alternate that colour scheme).

This quilt design could be made from rectangles and half-rectangle triangles, or by adding a triangle to a square. The latter method would waste fabric (the other half of the half-rectangle triangle that’s cut away from the square); the former would involve a bit more sewing and more seams. I’d prefer the former just for the sake of precision – I know there’s no way I’d manage to get that triangle in the square just right.