Tagged: rectangles
Sunday sketch #38
Often when I sit down with a dot pad and start sketching, one design quickly leads to another. After sketching last week‘s triangle design, I came up with this one. It re-uses some of the elements of #37 but removes some of the busy-ness and replaces it with long solid parallelograms.
I actually came up with a symmetrical design first, with the vertical separation of those Toblerone-like bars following a diagonal path. I still like this one too, although it’s a little more regular and conventional than the previous design.
Like last week’s design, this one could be made using half-square triangles and rectangles, with sashing in between. I like the idea of picking sets of 3 colours and mixing them per ‘bar’ – two for the interior layers (alternating) and one for the side and end. Maybe I’ll just have to make this design into a quilt to show you what I mean.
Sunday sketch #37
Trying out some triangles this week.
I think a gentle cascade of colours down each column could look interesting… or maybe just alternating between 2 colours – dark, light, dark, light. If you could find 12 shades of the same colour, you could go shade to shade, from darkest to lightest. (The design is a little lopsided: the bottom has 12 layers per stack, whereas the top half has only 11. Oops.)
This quilt design could be made from half-square triangles (and flying geese, if you want to save some seams) and rectangles, and a few sashing strips between the columns and across the middle. Simple.
Sunday sketch #36
A repeating pattern with a mid-century modern feel (to my mind, at least):
Maybe if I coloured it in a mid-century modern palette (or Excel’s closest approximation):
This quilt design looks a bit complicated to assemble, but it’s actually a fairly simple block – just rotated and repeated:
Squares and rectangles are all you’d need. The blocks have been chopped a little along the top, bottom and sides of the quilt design, just to leave a little more white space there.
As usual, I designed this with solids in mind, but it’d make a great scrappy quilt too!
