Sunday sketch #440

I realised quite soon after designing this week’s sketch that I’d just recreated a traditional block: the Kansas star block. When I’m designing with basic shapes like squares and half-square triangles, it’s not hard to stumble across something that’s been done before. Often I’ll just shelve those ideas, but occasionally I’ll post them, particularly if they’re a little different (in appearance or construction) from what I’ve seen elsewhere. In this case, I haven’t managed to find a version of this block where the outer squares are all one colour, like I’ve shown here.
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Sunday sketch #439

When I’m designing quilts, one of the most important aspects of a sketch is how it makes me feel. Not about how easy it might be to make, or who it might appeal to, but how I feel when I look at it: Indifferent? Bored? Surprised? Delighted?. This week’s sketch is the sort of simple, fun design that makes me very happy. The sort of design I’ll stumble onto and think “ha!”. And then I’ll keep going back to it, because it makes me smile 🙂

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Sunday sketch #438

This week’s sketch feels a bit like the design equivalent of a ‘novelty’ fabric. (Although after googling that phrase, I’ve discovered that people seem to have different ideas of what that actually means.) To me, it’s a fun design featuring recognisable objects rather than just shapes and colours. In this case, birds!

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