Sunday sketch #267

I’m in a very triangle-y mood lately.

This is a single block that’s repeated, rotated and flipped. The block has two half-square triangles (of the same size) and two half-rectangle triangles (one big, one small). My only rule when arranging the blocks was that a tip of a triangle in one block had to touch the tip of a triangle in the adjacent blocks. Well, there was maybe one more rule: I tried to avoid adjacent blocks being in the same orientation, although I can see a few in there.

I actually started with the reverse colourway, but the white background felt a bit too stark for me.

The blocks can also be arranged a bit more regularly/orderly – although not all the layouts are nice to look at. I quite like this one though, with the central stars.

This design could be made into a quilt pattern using half-square triangles and half-rectangle triangles, and some oddly shaped rectangles of background fabric. There are no partial seams necessary though, so once all the individual units were made, the blocks would come together pretty quickly.

 

Sunday sketch #266

Lots of edges, angles and pointy bits this week. (And acid yellow again!)

Here’s the reverse colourway.

Rotating alternate blocks gives a different look again. Still edgy and pointy, but with some larger chunks of colour to rest your eye on.

And rotating again produces quite a different design again. It’s still the same block (and still in a 5 x 5 layout), but it looks like a smaller shape repeated over and over again.

All these designs could be made into a quilts using squares, rectangles and half-square triangles.

 

 

Sunday sketch #265

I’ve had an idea in my mind for a while now – something about diamonds embedded in other shapes. It’s not fully formed in my brain… so I’ve been playing around a bit in EQ8 with diamond shapes.

This isn’t the idea I had in mind…! But I liked it enough to pursue it for awhile. The main shape is a bit like the triangle-in-a-square block from Sunday sketch #243 (and subsequent weeks), although the tip of the triangle doesn’t reach the top of the block here. This block has the same versatility though, and the addition of the thin border and sashing provides another spot for using colour.

I had to use acid yellow again! I mentioned on Instagram lately that I think it needs to be in every quilt design from now on….

So there are loads of ways to rotate and colour these blocks. Lots of layout options!

And the same layout can be coloured in different ways, leading to a quite different look and feel.

It can also be pared back in terms of palette, with only 4 colours instead of 5.

And the shapes can be grouped in different ways (using colour again) to give the impression of larger blocks.

Lots of options! These designs would all be pretty easy to make – I think freezer or foundation paper-piecing would be the way to go. (That’s what I’d prefer, to get the thin sashing nice and straight and even.) And one benefit of a design with lots of the same block is that you can save lots of time by chain piecing.

So, this doesn’t solve the problem of the other diamond design I need to work out…! If I can get the vague idea in my head into , you’ll be the first to see 🙂