Tagged: squares
Sunday sketch #91
More playing around with EQ8 this week. Can you tell I haven’t managed to develop many good colour palettes yet?
This is a block-based pattern: follow the horizontal and vertical lines until they lead to a black square, and that’s where four adjacent blocks meet.
I made a bigger design, then cut it down to this size (slicing some blocks in the process). It’s a pretty busy design (even in only three colours), so I thought it was better to have fewer blocks.
There are a few different ways you could make this – as is, or on point; and with squares, rectangles and triangles.
Sunday sketch #89
Another nine-patch with a twist this week. Well, two twists. One of the nine-patches has half-square triangle corners (like Sunday sketch #88), while the other one isn’t really a traditional nine-patch. I mean, it has nine patches, but… four of them are made from quarter-square triangles.
Alternating the two blocks creates squares that seem to float above the design, and diagonal strips that join the stars. Lots of unintentional movement!
Creating this design was a natural progression from the nine-patches I’ve been playing around with for the past few weeks, but the elements are so traditional, so well used, that I find it hard to believe someone hasn’t put these two blocks together before now. I checked my Pinterest boards and couldn’t find anything… but if you know of something similar out there, please let me know and I’ll update the blog accordingly.
Sunday sketch #88
Last week I started playing around with nine-patches, and this week’s design is an extension of that theme.
The corner squares of each nine-patch are half-square triangles, which means you can squeeze adjacent nine-patches right up against each other. Just using two colours against a background colour (white, in this case) almost brings those crosses to the foreground!
This is a super-simple design that uses only squares, half-square triangles and a few rectangles for sashing. It’s block-based, so would be really quick and easy to make.
(ps. Can you tell that I bought Electric Quilt 8? I’m slowly getting to grips with it. I don’t find it very intuitive, so I haven’t made huge progress yet. Having said that, every time I sit down to practice with it, I seem to create at least one design that I’m happy with!)
