Sunday sketch #281

This week’s design is block based, but you’d be forgiven for missing that. I’ve coloured the blocks in this 5 x 5 layout fairly randomly, using only three colours.

You can probably tell that the major elements are drunkard’s path blocks, squares and rectangles. I originally started with only two colours, then added the black for some visual interest. Here’s the two-colour version of the first design:

Rotating the blocks creates new variations (on the left), as does rearranging the random colouring (on the right).

The possibilities would be endless!

These designs could be made into quilts using drunkard’s path blocks, rectangles and squares – plus some borders.

 

Sunday sketch #280

Experimenting with a fairly basic block on repeat produced what I’m calling a ‘modern plaid’ this week…

Can you see the individual blocks? This is a 6 x 6 layout, if that helps. Here are the same blocks rotated…

And rotated again and again…

The blocks are coloured using a palette of four colours. This produces lots of variations when the blocks are rotated…parts of adjacent blocks intersect to create new secondary shapes.

I could do the math to tell you how many variations there are, but… let’s just say there are lots.

This week’s designs could be made into quilts using just squares and rectangles. The basic block is a 16-patch made up of four 4-patches. The outer corners are large squares; the inner corners are small squares; and the remaining ‘patches’ are rectangles.

There are so many design variations and colour combinations that you could recreate this design again and again and never make the same quilt twice.

Sunday sketch #279

This week’s design is the logical evolution of Sunday sketch #278 – just extending the top and bottom of each ‘lemon’ shape using more curves.

I tried it in a bunch of two-colour palettes, and they all look good!

I didn’t try an expanded palette, so I’m not sure how I’d introduce a third or fourth colour into this design. I kinda like the simplicity of this version.

This week’s design is made up entirely from drunkard’s path / quarter-circle blocks. With a two-colour palette, you could make the entire quilt (minus borders) just by chain-piecing two block colourways.