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.

Geometriquilt: Sunday Sketch #6

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.

Geometriquilt: Sunday Sketch #5

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.

Sunday sketch #4

This week, playing with a mix of half-square triangles and half-rectangle triangles (in 2:1 and 3:1 sizes) created lines that make me think of lightning or static electricity.

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #4-1   Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #4-2

The meandering lines with occasional abrupt kinks also remind me of the shape of the newer building of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. It’s a minimalist building designed by Daniel Libeskind (who was involved in the original design of the new World Trade Center in NYC) to commemorate two thousand years of Jewish history, but its focus is on the Holocaust and its effects. I visited more than 10 years ago, and I can still remember the feeling of disorientation and displacement that the building evokes through its twisted zig-zag shape (among other features). A very powerful design.

 

 

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