Sunday sketch #37

Trying out some triangles this week.

Geometriquilt_SS37

I think a gentle cascade of colours down each column could look interesting… or maybe just alternating between 2 colours – dark, light, dark, light. If you could find 12 shades of the same colour, you could go shade to shade, from darkest to lightest. (The design is a little lopsided: the bottom has 12 layers per stack, whereas the top half has only 11. Oops.)

This quilt design could be made from half-square triangles (and flying geese, if you want to save some seams) and rectangles, and a few sashing strips between the columns and across the middle. Simple.

 

Sunday sketch #36

A repeating pattern with a mid-century modern feel (to my mind, at least):

quilt_ideas.xlsx

Maybe if I coloured it in a mid-century modern palette (or Excel’s closest approximation):

quilt_ideas.xlsx

This quilt design looks a bit complicated to assemble, but it’s actually a fairly simple block – just rotated and repeated:

quilt_ideas

Squares and rectangles are all you’d need. The blocks have been chopped a little along the top, bottom and sides of the quilt design, just to leave a little more white space there.

As usual, I designed this with solids in mind, but it’d make a great scrappy quilt too!

Sunday sketch #35

I love using Excel to design quilt patterns. It’s easy to set up a grid of squares, and quick to fill cells with colour. And who doesn’t love a red and white quilt?

geometriquilt_ss35

I designed this on point in Excel and then flipped it 45 degrees in Illustrator.

You could make this design with a lot of half-square and quarter-square triangles, but it’d be much easier using strips, squares and rectangles. It’s actually one block repeated six times; you’d need to piece carefully to ensure that your white strips matched up.