I haven’t quite finished my first coffee of the day, and it took me a couple of minutes to work out what was wrong with the design above. Can you see it?
It took a while for me to realize when I started this project file that the corners of each Nine Patch block looked better if they were a paler shade of green.
Answer to the question above … the corner blocks contain a mis-coloured piece, even when they are not on the side.
Today’s designs come from a project file started in Electric Quilt 5 …. I am now using EQ8.
Most of the blocks came from the EQ library, but there are a few of the original blocks I was adding back then. Those blocks had been scribbled onto paper, and transferred to graph paper, but still with pencils. Now I draw new ideas in EQ8, though I still scribble some onto paper if I have an idea when the computer is not close by.
Most of the quilt designs in the project have a mixture of traditional blocks and my own ...
These designs all have Nine Patch blocks with identical corner squares, a vision I had one sleepless midnight hour. There are lots of possible corner blocks which create s filler design right across the quilt top. They become the background design when the other five squares are added to the mix.
I like the colouring in the first design best, but like the second design overall design best.
Looks much more intricate than it is … it is all just 9 Patch blocks.
The night vision part of the title refers to the night I woke up with an idea floating through my brain that the four corners of a 9 Patch block could become a 4 Patch block when the blocks are joined together.
The colour combination in this project file will always look good … with the block designs hopefully adding to the effect.
I think I like the second design best, though that opinion could change after a coffee, or tomorrow morning when I open up to add another couple of quilt designs.
In the design above the darker section of the blocks could stand by itself with blank corners, but one night I woke up with the idea that the blank corners of the block could become an additional design element. Usually when I have ideas in the middle of the night they escape before morning, but this one was still in my head when daylight came so i turned on the computer and started drawing 9P blocks with empty corners, and then some ideas for the corners which would form a secondary design.
Love everything about the design above! Anything but an average quilt design.
Also love the second design, but the first is the best of the two by a short margin.
Wishing all of you who have a look at my virtual designs from time to time, here or via email, a wonderful new year, with lots of time to spend being creative.