Sunday, February 6, 2011

Playing on the design wall... ("tutorial" for beginners)

This is not so much a tutorial as me talking to myself... but you might enjoy it anyway.

I love playing around on the design wall, turning the blocks this way and that way, they look so very different every time I try something new.  I just made a whole bunch of square in a square blocks and spent some time playing with them.

The most obvious way to place them is just next to each other:


..and they look just fine, right?  Then I turned them on point, just to see what happens:




Hey, I like that.  Nice and symmetrical.  But maybe a little boring, so I pulled them apart and pretended my green design wall is another fabric:




I like that too.  But just to complicate things, I took out some blocks I had already made:

Now that adds some life, but maybe it looses some of the simplicity...  See what I mean, there's a lot of possibilities.  Make your own pattern, don't just follow others!

Speaking of following others... want to know what all these square in a square blocks are for?  A very traditional block:  It's going to be a Storm at Sea quilt.  Se the block in the middle?


2 comments:

  1. Va duktig du är, jag är imponerad! Gillar ditt pysslande och jag gillar dig!!!!! kram Mariah

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  2. Tack det samma, sitter här och tänker på dig och hur ni har det...

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