Tagged: half-rectangle triangles
Sunday sketch #291
The basic shape in this week’s designs is based on the main shapes in Sunday sketches #289 and #290. I filled out those two connecting shapes, making them each a wonky hexagon. Tiling and rotating the blocks creates a bunch of new designs. I added a bit of visual interest by bisecting each hexagon on an angle, allowing me to use a different colour in each half.
The hexagon is such an old-school quilting shape. It’s fun to inject a bit of modernity into it.
I’ve used my usual happy/warm palette with these designs, but of course you could use any palette (or prints!) you like.
This week’s design could be made into actual quilts using half-square triangles, half-rectangle triangles, and a few rectangles. It’s block based (each of the designs shown here is a 6 x 6 layout), so you could make a bunch of blocks then piece them together.
I think these designs could work well as scrappy quilts, too. Using fabrics with different saturations on each side of the hexagons would highlight the secondary shapes created by those bisecting lines (like the diamonds in the two versions shown above).
Sunday sketch #284
I think I’ve found a new favourite colour palette.
This design emerged from another one I was working on recently. I used the ‘Symmetry’ function in Electric Quilt 8 and voilà – this emerged. Well, OK, not quite this… but enough to give me the idea to make it into this. Sometimes I just need to see a certain shape, or adjacent shapes, and I’ll get a new idea and run with it.
I did create a bunch of variations, but I felt like letting this one stand on its own today.
As you can probably tell from the design, this sketch could be made into a quilt using squares (big and small) and half-rectangle triangles. I’ve used a really scrappy approach when it comes to colour placement, which I think works well.
Sunday sketch #268
If you’ve been following me for awhile, this week’s Sunday sketch might look familiar. It’s a reworking of my pattern Heartbreaker, using half-rectangle triangles instead of half-square triangles.
(Heartbreaker was published in Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine in 2018 and renamed ‘Raspberry Crush’.)
So let’s call the original Heartbreaker I and this one Heartbreaker II. Changing the basic unit from a HST to a HRT does a few things… first, whereas Heartbreaker I uses 5 colours, Heartbreaker II uses only 4. It can be hard to find the gradation of colours necessary to make this design, so the fewer colours needed, the better. And second, I felt like the elongated shape of the HRT called for a vertical rather than horizontal arrangement, so I’ve rotated the layout 90 degrees from the original. This makes it a bit easier to see the ‘heart’ shapes that prompted the name.
I’m working on releasing Heartbreaker I as a pattern. It’s still one of my all-time favourite quilt designs. Maybe I should add a variation for Heartbreaker II??
