Tagged: rectangles
Sunday sketch #104
Playing around with long X’s – which have the same angle as a 2:1 half-rectangle triangle – produced this sketch, which (again!) lends itself to reverse colour play.
I often copy sketches – sometimes over and over again – to add shading or modify them slightly. Shading this one shows how the individual units repeat: either white on black, or black on white.
This design could be made using ‘triangle in a square’ units, plus long rectangles. You could also paper-piece those X blocks for accuracy.
Sunday sketch #100
Can you believe I’ve made it to 100 Sunday sketches?! Almost two years of consistently posting a new quilt design, week after week… wow. Thanks for following along!
A few weeks ago, Sunday sketch #95 featured big stars enclosing the traditional sawtooth star quilt block. I like the idea of creating a traditional block almost inadvertently through the placement of other pieces in a quilt design. So I pursued that direction for awhile, and came up with this week’s criss-cross design.
Overlaid crosses create the sawtooth star in the middle of each block. There are lots of ways to colour this design to emphasise different parts.
This design would be fairly easy to translate into a quilt pattern using squares, rectangles and triangles.
Sunday sketch #97
Some simple Xs and Os, noughts and crosses, tic tac toe…
You could even mix the X and O blocks around to simulate an actual game of tic tac toe.
These blocks would be a great opportunity to play with transparency – imagine those centre squares (on point) in a colour that blends the two crossover colours. The blocks could be made using rectangles, squares, and a few triangles of background fabric to fill out the block.
