Tagged: half-rectangle triangles

Sunday sketch #22

Following the theme of what shapes can fit in a 2 x 2 square (see #11, #12, #15, #16, #18, #20…), I’ve been playing around with half-rectangle triangles again. I tried to prevent adjacent shapes from joining on their horizontal or vertical lines, but a few overlaps snuck in (e.g. fifth row down, about two thirds of the way across… a shaded and an unshaded triangle have their backs together).

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I tried to avoid the heaviness of those adjoining shapes by shading in the back/forth triangles while leaving the up/down triangles empty (the design could also be rotated 90 degrees to alternate that colour scheme).

This quilt design could be made from rectangles and half-rectangle triangles, or by adding a triangle to a square. The latter method would waste fabric (the other half of the half-rectangle triangle that’s cut away from the square); the former would involve a bit more sewing and more seams. I’d prefer the former just for the sake of precision – I know there’s no way I’d manage to get that triangle in the square just right.

 

Sunday sketch #7

Alternating the orientation of half-rectangle triangles adds some interesting movement.

Geometriquilt: Sunday Sketch #7

In the spirit of transparency, and giving credit to inspiration, I had a look around my Pinterest feed to see what other quilts are similar to this design. I see a resemblance to the Colour Explosion quilt from Bonjour Quilts, the Modern X quilt from Christa Watson, and the Mesa Mini Quilt from Michael Ann Made, among others.

I didn’t derive my pattern from anything else, but it may have been inadvertently inspired by others’ work. Who can tell what ideas floating around my head inform each sketch?

 

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Sunday sketch #6

I can’t get enough of half-rectangle triangles! I bought a 3:1 Bloc Loc ruler last week, so now I have no excuse not to make a quilt from one of the many 3:1 HRT designs I’ve posted here.

Geometriquilt: Sunday Sketch #6

One of the things I like most about this design is all the diagonal lines – so how to recreate that in a quilt? Perhaps paper piecing a thin line of contrasting fabric across each HRT unit, adding sashing of the same width between the units. Maybe I should try it in a mini quilt first.

(It’s only when I take pics of a sketched design that I see what’s missing. Can you spot the rectangle without its diagonal?)