I don’t usually do holiday-themed designs, but I couldn’t help it this week. The basic flower unit in last week’s sketch reminded me of a pumpkin, and with Halloween coming up… it felt like good timing to play around with the idea a little more.
I always seem to have one or two unrealised ideas in my head when it comes to quilt designing – vague concepts or hazy pictures that float around my brain but won’t quite land on paper (or screen). One of these ideas is for an Australian native plants/flowers quilt – I’m determined to design a modern quilt based on banksias or wattles one of these days!
Recently while I was developing banksia ideas (none of which worked!), I came up with an entirely different flower design that felt fun enough to share.
A few weeks ago, I shared a sketch featuring stripy blocks that were subcut into triangle-in-a-square units. Depending on the colour palette and placement, the design could look like larger transparent shapes had been placed over a checkerboard of stripes. I’d also tried the same effect with curves, but decided not to include those pics in that post. But one of the first comments I got on Instagram (from Kacie @whoop_ingcrane) was asking how the same design would look with curves, so here we are!
