Tagged: drunkard’s path
Sunday sketch #362
This week’s block is the same as last week’s, so I’m cheating a little bit by making a new Sunday sketch rather than rolling these designs into last week’s post. But hey, it’s my blog, and I can do what I want! 🙂
I’ve rotated the block to create these new shapes. They’re admittedly kinda odd, but I like them.
Rotating again creates these shapes – don’t they remind you of moose antlers?
Here’s the same design shifted over, so the four antler conglomerations appear in full.
I tried different palettes, too, but I think I prefer the first one.
And there’s the antler design without the interstitial stars. I kinda like them too though. They add just that little bit of visual interest to keep things fun.
Like last week’s designs, this week’s sketch could be made into a quilt using quarter-circles (or drunkard’s path units), half-circles (or 2 Ă— drunkard’s path units), squares and rectangles.
I probably won’t make this one. At small-scale and from afar, the design looks a bit too much like it includes a motif that I always try to avoid. I only really noticed after I drafted this blog post and then looked at the thumbnail image on the list of upcoming posts. Oops. Let’s not go there.
Sunday sketch #361
This week’s block is very similar to last week’s, but the foreground/background drips are a little further apart, and the two drips (in both directions) are the same length. I’ve also added some curved corners to the blocks, which help to create little stars at the corners of four adjacent blocks.
Isn’t this a cute palette, too? Here’s the design showing two full pink squiggles and rotated to show them running horizontally.
I prefer the first orientation, I think. Even though I’m calling it ‘drippy’, and drips tend to run vertically… it feels more fun in the first layout where the drips go horizontally.
Like last week’s block, this week’s design is all about curves (half-circles, or drunkard’s path), squares and rectangles. I think it’d be a fun one to make!
Sunday sketch #359
This week’s sketch(es) remind me a little of Sunday sketch #296 – they’re both tessellations of a curvy shape with a star in the middle.
Whereas Sunday sketch #296 relied mostly on half-circles, this week’s shape uses quarter-circles or drunkard’s path units. Here I’ve used palette of three colours.
But two also works….
Or more than two. (With a busier palette, I often like to use one colour for a single element of all the blocks for a bit of consistency: here I’ve used white.)
You can get a better idea of the basic building block from this next version, where I’ve used a single colour (plus background colour) per block. The ‘reverse’ tessellated shapes (the ones that are mostly background colour) are made from the corner elements of 4 adjacent blocks.
This week’s designs use a 4 Ă— 4 block in a standard layout, and each block is made up of quarter-circle/drunkard’s path units, plus a few orange peel units. The precise number would depend on your preferred layout, of course.
This is by no means a completely original shape; I’m sure it’s out there already in quilt land. I haven’t saved anything like it on my Pinterest board of curvy quilts, but that doesn’t mean it’s not out there. If you know of a quilt pattern based on this shape, let me know and I’ll update this post!