Tagged: HST

Sunday sketch #263

This week’s design is pretty basic (very basic!) but I’m OK with that. I love how the overall layout feels fun and off-kilter because of the different sashing widths. I love the colour palette and those pops of acid yellow. And I love all the movement created by two of the most basic blocks around: half-square triangles and drunkard’s paths.

Here it is without the extra sashing around the HSTs and without the acid yellow.

Wouldn’t this make a great stash-buster pattern? Pick a colour palette and then just start mixing and matching prints (or solids). Quick and easy!

Sunday sketch #250

Congrats to me for making it to 250! And thank you to you for following along 🙂

Alternating blocks this week: a drunkard’s path and a bunch of half-square triangles.

Rotating the drunkard’s path blocks by 180 degrees gives the impression of moving the circles one block vertically and horizontally. This also gives the impression of a reverse colourway, although the designs are both black circles on white backgrounds. But the previous version had a dark border, whereas this one has a light border.

Alternating the direction of the drunkard’s path blocks introduces new curvy shapes, while leaving the HSTs in the same position.

And, of course, the addition of another colour can help to create new shapes and movement too.

I also tried replacing the HST block with another square block design, just to see how it would look. The ‘waves’ created by the linked drunkard’s path blocks are still there, but now there are diagonal strings of stars instead of those HST blocks. This is giving me big Star Spangled Banner vibes!

These designs are all made with an alternating arrangement of square blocks: either a drunkard’s path block or a block of 9 HSTs (or a small sawtooth star block). The HSTs block can look somewhat traditional rather than modern, but the right combination of colour and contrast will bring it into the 21st century.

Sunday sketch #169

Occasionally I go back to old sketches and keep playing with them to see if I can come up with something I like even more. Often I don’t get the chance, because I get distracted by a new design and move off in a different direction.

I loved Sunday sketch #158 when I posted it, but I soon decided that the design was too busy. I revisited it, introducing some negative space to lighten it a bit.

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #169-1

I kept the original colour scheme, but moved the colours around a bit and gave it a black background. I think that helps to rest the eye while also making the colours pop a little more.

I’ve mentioned before that I love playing with columns of half-square triangles, which is pretty much how this design originally came about. Well, why not pare it back to the basics then, to see what just those columns on their own would look like?

Geometriquilt_SS169-2.jpg

I kinda like this minimalist version, although I wonder if it needs the back story to make sense. Although I don’t know why I wonder that, because none of my other designs has a back story!

Taking it a step further, I decided to add back in more HSTs, to fill those empty black columns.

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #169-3

I added corresponding HSTs, in the same colour, to create columns of stacked diamonds. I kinda like this weird moiré-ish effect.

Here are the three together so you can see the progression from one to the next:

Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #169-1 Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #169-2 Geometriquilt: Sunday sketch #169-3

I think I prefer the middle one after all!