Tagged: squares
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!
Sunday sketch #35
I love using Excel to design quilt patterns. It’s easy to set up a grid of squares, and quick to fill cells with colour. And who doesn’t love a red and white quilt?
I designed this on point in Excel and then flipped it 45 degrees in Illustrator.
You could make this design with a lot of half-square and quarter-square triangles, but it’d be much easier using strips, squares and rectangles. It’s actually one block repeated six times; you’d need to piece carefully to ensure that your white strips matched up.
Sunday sketch #29
More on the theme of overlapping octagons.
The colour combinations with designs like these are almost endless, and provide the perfect opportunity for creating transparency effects.
Even the simpler, more regular patterns create lots of interesting little secondary shapes. Squares within squares within squares.
As with my previous octagon-based designs, these ones could be made using mostly squares, half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles. Setting on-point might be easier, as it would require mostly squares, quarter-square triangles and rectangles.
