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Sunday sketch #491

I made a quilt recently (which I’ll share in a few weeks’ time) that used loads of wide curves – the same size/shape that I used in my quilts Blue Wave, Whirlwind and Quattro. Basically a 7″ (finished) drunkard’s path unit with a 3.5″ (finished) drunkard’s path cut out of it. A bit like a macaroni! It’s such a great shape, and so easy to piece thanks to drunkard’s path templates from Papper, Sax, Sten.

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Sunday sketch #483

Like Sunday sketches #481 and #482, this week’s sketch is a block-based design featuring one main motif: a two-layer economy block surrounded on all four sides by a small square on point. The small squares are shared between adjacent blocks, and there’s potential to change things up through colour placement and by adding different shapes in spaces between blocks.

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