Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #25
Playing around with perspective this week, using some tumbling blocks. By cascading from top to bottom, they draw the eye across the quilt; lots of negative space on either side gives the eye somewhere to rest.
These aren’t the traditional tumbling block units created from three identical diamond shapes. These blocks have many more angles to contend with, but they could all be made using half-square triangles and half-rectangle triangles (3:1 size).
Sunday sketch #21
I can’t quite figure out what this design reminds me of… a constellation? Modern blossoms?
When it comes to emphasizing parts of the design through colour and fabric choice, I’m not sure what I’d prefer – diminishing the small squares so they recede into the background, or highlighting them so they pop into the foreground? Or treating the isolated squares differently from those that form part of the stars/blossoms?
Construction of this design would be easy – it’s all squares, half-square triangles and rectangles.
Sunday sketch #20
I thought I’d exhausted all the angular shapes that could possibly fit in a 2×2 square, but it seems not. Look at the great shapes that emerge from the whitespace!
Each 2×2 unit could be created from two smaller squares and two half-square triangles.
