Quilts

Many lovely and intricate patchwork quilt designs are made using blocks constructed with several shapes – squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, round sectors, and extra. However single-form patterns also assist you to get inventive along with your designs. In truth, some people discover the only-shape restriction a enjoyable problem. Rectangular patches are simple to chop in bulk and lend themselves to many alternative tessellations. Here we discover quilt patterns using nothing more than 1-by-2 rectangles of equal dimension. Half-sq. rectangles will be organized to make pinwheel shapes, stars, flowers, diagonal stripes, brick patterns, and different novel designs.

With squares and half-square triangles you can create eight-pointed star and flower patterns and octagonal motifs. When designing star quilt blocks, it’s necessary to know that the ratio of a square’s diagonal to its aspect is sqrt(2):1, or roughly 1.414 to 1. See below for designs I’ve already developed. A few of these have …