Tagged: orange peel

Sunday sketch #496

In the midst of writing last week’s blog post, I realised I could tweak that design just a little bit more. You can probably see the similarities – I’m still following a floral theme πŸ™‚ – but I figured this new version’s different enough to be worth sharing.

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Sunday sketch #486

I always seem to have one or two unrealised ideas in my head when it comes to quilt designing – vague concepts or hazy pictures that float around my brain but won’t quite land on paper (or screen). One of these ideas is for an Australian native plants/flowers quilt – I’m determined to design a modern quilt based on banksias or wattles one of these days!

Recently while I was developing banksia ideas (none of which worked!), I came up with an entirely different flower design that felt fun enough to share.

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Sunday sketch #466

This week’s sketch is another design that let me use lots of colours – well, up to six, which is a lot for me πŸ™‚

It’s a block-based design, and each block has three distinct elements: four small circles, four orange peel units, and an outer squircle encompassing everything. So a two-colour palette is possible (though not very interesting), but a palette of three or more colours is best.

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