Wayne Kollinger's Sketch Book

Try This Simple Exercise For Designing Quilts An easy way to start a quilt design is to take a simple block and...

If You Change Something Old, You Get Something New Yesterday I added an outside design to blocks with 3x3 grids and got ne...

Quilting Sawtooth Star This quilt top is one of the ones that I designed by modifying a Sawtooth Star. You can find it in my 31 October...

Quilting Sawtooth Star For me, the hardest part of designing a quilt is designing the quilting. However, this design from my 30 Octobe...

Piecing Sawtooth Star This quilt top design is from my 28 October 2010 post. It is possible to piece this using only square and half-s...

Piecing Sawtooth Star This quilt top design is from my 28 October 2010 post. It is possible to piece this using only squares and half-...

Borders Sawtooth Star This quilt top was designed using blocks derived from a Sawtooth Star block. (See my 24, 26 & 28 October 2010 ...

Colors Sawtooth Star I derived this large block from a Sawtooth Star block on 26 october 2010. I am going to put 4 of them together an...

Blocks Sawtooth Star Two days ago (24 October 2010) I pointed out that a Sawtooth Star block can be made from a simple unit that is rep...

Blocks Sawtooth Star I like to take old blocks, such as this Sawtooth Star block, and change them to make new blocks.

Colors Ohio Star & Sawtooth Star When I designed this on 17 October 2010, I was pleased. Looking at it now I can see it needs more ...

Ohio Star & Sawtooth Star Ohio Star and Sawtooth Star are two very similar blocks. What if I use them both together in a quilt to...

Medallion Quilt Sawtooth Star I tried designing medallion quilts for the first time in my 14 October 2010 post. I've decided that th...

Borders Sawtooth Star I was trying to see what sort of quilt tops I could create by changing the colors in a Sawtooth Star. My first few...

Off-center Quilt Sawtooth Star I want to design a 72" x 96" quilt top using 6" Sawtooth Stars. What if  I create a ser...