Category: Sunday sketch
Sunday sketch #7
Alternating the orientation of half-rectangle triangles adds some interesting movement.
In the spirit of transparency, and giving credit to inspiration, I had a look around my Pinterest feed to see what other quilts are similar to this design. I see a resemblance to the Colour Explosion quilt from Bonjour Quilts, the Modern X quilt from Christa Watson, and the Mesa Mini Quilt from Michael Ann Made, among others.
I didn’t derive my pattern from anything else, but it may have been inadvertently inspired by others’ work. Who can tell what ideas floating around my head inform each sketch?
Sunday sketch #6
I can’t get enough of half-rectangle triangles! I bought a 3:1 Bloc Loc ruler last week, so now I have no excuse not to make a quilt from one of the many 3:1 HRT designs I’ve posted here.
One of the things I like most about this design is all the diagonal lines – so how to recreate that in a quilt? Perhaps paper piecing a thin line of contrasting fabric across each HRT unit, adding sashing of the same width between the units. Maybe I should try it in a mini quilt first.
(It’s only when I take pics of a sketched design that I see what’s missing. Can you spot the rectangle without its diagonal?)
Sunday sketch #5
This week: repetition of a simple block containing stars of alternating orientation. I wanted to take HSTs and HRTs a step further, combining them to create new shapes. I tried two ‘colour’ schemes: one with dark stars against a white background, and one with white stars against a dark background. I like the secondary pattern that pops up between the blocks.
I didn’t start out with the intention of using both designs in one diagram; I just wanted to see what each one would look like and I was too lazy to draw it all out a second time. But now that I see them both together, I quite like the idea of transitioning from one to the other across a single quilt. I’d need to work more on making the transition smoother across the middle.
