If you’ve been following me for awhile, this week’s Sunday sketch might look familiar. It’s a reworking of my pattern Heartbreaker, using half-rectangle triangles instead of half-square triangles.

(Heartbreaker was published in Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine in 2018 and renamed ‘Raspberry Crush’.)

So let’s call the original Heartbreaker I and this one Heartbreaker II. Changing the basic unit from a HST to a HRT does a few things… first, whereas Heartbreaker I uses 5 colours, Heartbreaker II uses only 4. It can be hard to find the gradation of colours necessary to make this design, so the fewer colours needed, the better. And second, I felt like the elongated shape of the HRT called for a vertical rather than horizontal arrangement, so I’ve rotated the layout 90 degrees from the original. This makes it a bit easier to see the ‘heart’ shapes that prompted the name.

I’m working on releasing Heartbreaker I as a pattern. It’s still one of my all-time favourite quilt designs. Maybe I should add a variation for Heartbreaker II??

I’m in a very triangle-y mood lately.

This is a single block that’s repeated, rotated and flipped. The block has two half-square triangles (of the same size) and two half-rectangle triangles (one big, one small). My only rule when arranging the blocks was that a tip of a triangle in one block had to touch the tip of a triangle in the adjacent blocks. Well, there was maybe one more rule: I tried to avoid adjacent blocks being in the same orientation, although I can see a few in there.

I actually started with the reverse colourway, but the white background felt a bit too stark for me.

The blocks can also be arranged a bit more regularly/orderly – although not all the layouts are nice to look at. I quite like this one though, with the central stars.

This design could be made into a quilt pattern using half-square triangles and half-rectangle triangles, and some oddly shaped rectangles of background fabric. There are no partial seams necessary though, so once all the individual units were made, the blocks would come together pretty quickly.