Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #39
I’m still exploring layered triangles, this time with a pop of colour.
When looking through any series of designs from one of my sketching sessions, I can fairly easily see the progression in my approach, from the more routine and regular to the slightly less conventional (at least, for me). In this series, I started with the red triangles all sitting on a single horizontal line across the middle of the page, then tried them in a diagonal position instead. Note that the angled edges of the triangles still all line up though – there’s only so much irregularly I can handle!
The design at the top of this post has rotational symmetry around the centre: flip it around 180 degrees and it looks the same. The second design (above) looks quite different when you flip it upside-down (below):
I drew it with the red arrows facing up, but I think I might prefer it with them facing down. Of course, if you made this into a quilt, you could just turn it around depending on your mood.
Like the other triangle designs, these could be made from half-square triangles (and, optionally, flying geese) and rectangles, with sashing.
Sunday sketch #38
Often when I sit down with a dot pad and start sketching, one design quickly leads to another. After sketching last week‘s triangle design, I came up with this one. It re-uses some of the elements of #37 but removes some of the busy-ness and replaces it with long solid parallelograms.
I actually came up with a symmetrical design first, with the vertical separation of those Toblerone-like bars following a diagonal path. I still like this one too, although it’s a little more regular and conventional than the previous design.
Like last week’s design, this one could be made using half-square triangles and rectangles, with sashing in between. I like the idea of picking sets of 3 colours and mixing them per ‘bar’ – two for the interior layers (alternating) and one for the side and end. Maybe I’ll just have to make this design into a quilt to show you what I mean.
Sunday sketch #37
Trying out some triangles this week.
I think a gentle cascade of colours down each column could look interesting… or maybe just alternating between 2 colours – dark, light, dark, light. If you could find 12 shades of the same colour, you could go shade to shade, from darkest to lightest. (The design is a little lopsided: the bottom has 12 layers per stack, whereas the top half has only 11. Oops.)
This quilt design could be made from half-square triangles (and flying geese, if you want to save some seams) and rectangles, and a few sashing strips between the columns and across the middle. Simple.
