Tagged: transparency
Sunday sketch #75
More ribbon-like diagonal strips this week, turning corners and flipping back on themselves.
It’s easy to change the look of this design by flipping the foreground and background strips (which probably would’ve been easier to see if I’d coloured them…).
Or pushing some of the background strips to the foreground.
Like the past two weeks‘ designs, these sketches could be made into quilt patterns using half-square triangles or strips (set on point after creating 4 identical blocks). Lots of opportunity for playing with interesting colours and even transparency.
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.
Sunday sketch #28
Overlapping octagons make some lovely secondary shapes…
Three different shades highlight where the octagons overlap once, twice or three times.
This design could be made as-is using squares, rectangles and half-square triangles. Or you could turn it 90 degrees and make it on point using mostly squares and rectangles and a few quarter-square triangles. Following the shading shown here, you’d need only 4 colours.
This design would be perfect for playing with transparency – combining fabric and colours to create the effect of translucent layers. To see what I mean, check out my Pinterest board Quilts: Transparency.
