Playing with Blocks
Broken Dishes
Broken Dishes Blocks are based on this outline pattern.
What if I start with a Broken dishes block and a Diamond in the Square block in outline form and use them in a Ninepatch setting?
If I color the diamonds and part of the Broken Dishes blocks, I get this symmetrical pattern.
This has some potential.
What if I change the up-down, right-left symmetry to rotational symmetry by adding a medium blue to 2 corners in each of the Diamond in the Square blocks?
What should I try next?
What if I add a light blue adjacent to the medium blue?
This is beginning to look like something.
What if I complete the chain of blues with an even lighter blue? Then I'll fill the background in a checkerboard fashion with 2 light tans.
I like the combination of symmetries in this motif. And I think it can be used to create some interesting patterns.
Broken Dishes Blocks are based on this outline pattern.
I like your attitude. Will be looking for your book when it comes out. Happy Quilting, Marj
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words.
My book is about the design process and how simple it can be. It is about repeatedly asking 3 simple questions: "What if...?" "Do I like it?" and "Why?" In it I demonstrate the process by designing 6 quilts while the reader looks over my shoulder and eavesdrops on my thoughts.
You'll have to let me know what you think of it after you've read it.