Tagged: paper piecing
Sunday sketch #203
I’ve been working on a magazine quilt that uses thick lines to delineate a shape, and it got me thinking about how else I could use similar lines. I’ve also been inspired by Steph Skardal‘s progress on lots of nested-curve foundation paper-piecing. I’ve had an idea in my head for awhile that involves curves and stripes, but for some reason I could never get it quite right. Finally the stars aligned and I managed to download what was in my head into EQ8 and onto the page.
This week’s design is just a simple block on repeat. There are a million and one ways to arrange this block, but I quite liked this one!
As much as I love two-colour designs, it’s still fun to try a multicolour palette. As usual, I love the combination of a fiery red and a hot pink, along with bold black lines.
I love how the horizontal lines draw your eye across this design too. Lots of movement!
And the reverse colour way, with a black background and white foreground, is also striking (although perhaps not as much).
This design would be a great one for trying out Steph’s foundation paper piecing technique. Otherwise, I think you’d need templates to get the required precision. Not necessarily a quick design, but fairly straightforward!
Sunday sketch #201
This design is the last one in the series that started with Sunday sketch #199. (I’ve got a bunch more related designs, but I don’t like to stick with one theme for too long!)
This one’s another variation on the layout, with some blocks flipped.
I like the zig-zag effect that results; it carries your eye across the page, back and forth. A bit more flipping (in this case, each other row) brings out secondary diamond shapes:
Like the previous designs in this series, these ones could be made into quilts using templates and paper piecing.
Sunday sketch #200
Ta da! I always wondered what big post I’d plan for #200, but now that it’s here, I just want to get on with another sketch*. Shall we?
I mentioned last week that I’d created a bunch of designs from a single block – the double-triangle parallelogram-in-a-rectangle block (for lack of a better name). Well, here’s another one.
This time, the blocks are arranged horizontally instead of vertically, and they use 4 colours instead of just 3. The top left of each block is always dark blue, and the bottom right is always grey; the middles change between yellow and white depending on location – creating diagonal strips of all-white or all-yellow triangles.
And playing around with colour placement can produce a very different design, with fatter diagonal stripes that emerge as secondary shapes:
Like last week, these designs would be easiest to make into quilts using paper piecing.
* Seriously though, thanks for following along with me as I share my design ideas. It’s a huge source of creativity, fun and inspiration for me, and I’m chuffed that others enjoy it too. Here’s to the next 200!
