Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #292
By cutting a slim wedge out of each hexagon in last week’s main shape (which itself was based on the shapes in Sunday sketches #289 and #290), I created a kinda butterfly/flowery type of shape this week.
The lines of the wedges create some interesting vertical and horizontal lines across the entire design. Everything else about the block is the same as last week, so it can be tiled and rotated.
There’s a lot going on in this design, so you might prefer a minimal palette.
Or you could use colour in a more intentional way across the whole design. Here, I’ve followed the diagonal lines inside the hexagons to colour each ascending row in a different hue.
This week’s designs could be made into quilts using the same approach as last week. The only difference is that the middle half-rectangle triangle (which introduces the diagonal line that bisects each hexagon) has one half in the background colour, making it look like a wedge has been cut out.
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 #290
You might notice the resemblance between this week’s designs and last week’s.
This week’s designs use the shape I showed last week but didn’t use then. Here’s a reminder…
Multiples of this shape can be connected by just their tips, once again creating ascending rows of loop-like structures. But unlike last week’s design, this week’s has only elongated diamonds as the secondary shapes. Colouring them (in white, below) helps to see them more clearly, and ties the three rows together.
You can also differentiate different parts of the loops using colour to suggest the presence of foreground and background shapes…
…or fill in the spaces between the shapes to create a whole new shape – in this case, crosses.
Like the designs from the past two weeks, this week’s Sunday sketch could be made into an actual quilt using half-square triangles and squares. They’re not designs that can be easily broken down into discrete blocks, so you’d be better off making a ton of HSTs and just laying them out in rows and columns, then sewing them together.
