This post is a bit late today because I’ve been focusing on finishing up a talk on color theory that I’m giving at the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild meeting tomorrow. If you’re in the area and want to get your color geek on, stop by!
In the meantime, here’s another week of quilt design a day (QDAD) designs!
Last week I talked about a block I created that was a spin on the churn-dash block. Still playing with it this week a little bit. The arrows don’t show up in this version, but I love the geometric shapes it creates!
This design ended up being the one I used for my Great Pillow Fight swap, which you can see finished here. I liked how it was somewhat traditional looking but had a bit of a modern twist to it. Plus it reminds me of tulips, which are one of my favorite flowers.
The arrows are back, sort of, but they are a bit hidden in this take of that churn-dash remix block. Mostly I wanted to play with transparency, which is always fun. This is the last of the designs using this particular block, but I’m pretty happy with all the variations that can come from it.
After so many straight lines, I took a break and played with circles. Again, playing with transparency (one of my favorite effects) but I also wanted to pay attention to depth and having the design “escape” the edges.
The challenge for this day was to create an “in your face” design. So I made a simple HST block and rotated it, scaled it up and had it go off the edges so it looked like it was coming towards the viewer. Don’t really care for the colors, but I like the effect of the block!
It’d been a while since I’d attempted stars, so I decided to play with them some more. I’m quite happy with how this one came out, and it was designed to leave room to play with transparency effects. I like the secondary shapes this one makes as well.
And more transparency and stars! This one ended up looking more like a bevel in a jewel than a star, but it had some interesting effects. I think I prefer my stars a bit simpler, though.
And that’s another week wrapped up! I hope you all have a creative weekend!
14 thoughts on “Quilt Design A Day”
Love global brights! love the way the design is skewed and goes off the edge. Repeating the same blocks in the same colors in the same position bores me to sew. This is dynamic. How would it be sewn?
Thank you! 😀 I’d probably sew them together like normal, then rotate and whack off the edges. So not super exciting to sew, but man that cutting step would be adrenaline filled! 😉
When you design this, does the design tell you how to cut the pieces out? I am trying to figure out how this would be cut out to assemble. Half square triangles, rectangles? Would the center square be made with the half square triangles? My mind is always trying to figure out.
If I were using a program like EQ7, it’d tell me how to sew it, but I design in Illustrator which is just a drawing program. It was drawn using HSTs though, so I know it can be put together that way. There is probably a more clever way to assemble it however!
Oh wow! What a week! Amazing!
Thanks Julie! 😀 It’s fun coming back to these older designs (I’m about a month and a half behind on posting at this point) and revisiting them. It’s kind of crazy all the places this creative journey has gone!
Beautiful!! I want to make “Chilled Tones” — and not just because that one lends itself to some *amazing* quilting!!
I’m so excited about your talk today!!
If you get bored and need something to sew, I’ll make up a paper-piecing pattern of it for you. 🙂 I hear you’re not busy with anything else!
This is called the real work! It’s wonderful, Just love the way the design is skewed. It’s taking hard to sew same in the same color.
Thank you so much! I need to try skewing designs more often. It’s not something I’m very comfortable with, but I do like the results.
I like all your transparency designs but I’m just not sure if you can get them work with fabrics. Prove it! lol
LOL Challenge accepted. As soon as I finish this other top. ^_^ You can look up Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr’s transparency work though if you want to see it done by someone else!
Love those circles! Don’t know that I’d want to make that quilt myself, but I’d love to have it when it was finished! ;D
Hahaha if I ever make that one (applique is super fast at least!) I’ll be sure to send it your way. 🙂