The last post had a very beautiful and complicated stars and hexagons pattern but here's something much more simple.
Rows and rows of rectangles.
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Sometimes it's more challenging to create using minimum lines and forms.
I started by doing a painting/ collage. I had already decided that I wanted to work in one colour and chose a lemony yellow.
I decided against piecing and chose to create the lines using stitching.
The shading on the hand dyed fabric gave me the idea to actually dye the fabric in squares and then quilt.
This is as far as I got. Again probably due to the fact that my machine quilting skills aren't good enough for what I was trying to achieve.It would be interesting to go back and redo the project using big stitch hand quilting and see what emerges.
Here's another set of pavement tiles where you could use a similar approach.
This design isn't mine at all, but a completely traditional one. Sometime back in the late nineties Quilters' Newsletter Monthly (as it was then called) printed this pattern.
I think it's called Rose Dream. I started hand sewing blocks and I'm still trying to complete them. My aim is 100 blocks, or 50 different fabrics. As it's taking so long to do the fabrics are a veritable history of my patchwork fabric collection.
I'm sure some of you even recognise, and still have, some of the same fabrics.
So, despite working on this as a very longterm project, for a long time I didn't recognise that the tiles in the patio of the house where I'm living in Spain were the same pattern.
Interestingly I started the project by drawing around the templates and sewing along the pencil line and then randomly cutting a seam. A few years later I bought Jinny Beyers hand sewing bible and changed to adding the 1/4 inch seam into the templates and sewing by eye. It's a much better system.
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| The Jinny Beyers method block is on the top.
And finally, a few weeks ago the bus stopped and out of the window was another traditional design there on the wall in front of me.
Once you start looking there are design possibilities everywhere and honestly I do finish projects, sometimes!
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