Tagged: strips
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 #34
More stars and stripes this week, still using Excel.
I like the balance between the two shades of each colour – almost as if you’re seeing the (saturated) front and (faded) back of a strip of fabric. I love the amount of negative space around the stars, and the white squares (on point) that emerge as a result. And those Devo hat-like triangular stacks – you almost don’t see the stars for the stripes.
Set the same design on point for a different effect:
Almost like a modern plaid of sorts.
