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A very interesting design!

These designs are no where as hard to do if you use the no pins method of joining the two curved pieces. Then I would start at the right hand side and chain piece the first two rows on the left, then continue chain piecing squares to the right hand side, using the diagram as a guide. In workshops I had students finish a cot quilt top in a day, including cutting, piecing the curves and joining the top.

Colours are dull, but the contrast is good as the block designs can be seen clearly.

I like the second design! It would be ok on a bed, but also make a rather nice floor rug.

It has been a while since I opened a Patchwork Jigsaw project. Love the border around these designs.

The 1134 in the title is the number I gave the block above which has been twisted and turned to make quite a few assorted over all designs.

Interesting variation in the second design.

It is a tie for my favourite of these three designs, first and last.

Love the border in all of them.

I love playing with Drunkard’s Path, and once did some maths to work out how many ways squares with a quarter circle cut out of them could be arranged in 4×4 groups, and the answer reached across an A4 page in quite small print and I have lost the sheet of paper and will not bother doing the maths again. (Too much like doing school homework!)

These three designs use just one of the many block possibilities, and I thought they are interesting enough to share.

Mind you, I have no idea what it might represent, but it ...

This is just one of many ways a square with a quarter circle can be arranged to make a 4P square, then put together to make a quilt design.

Many years ago I did some multiplying on a sheet of paper to work out how many ways a 4P square could be arranged, then kept multiplying until I had the number of ways four of those square could be put together.

The number reached level of annual government wages of public servants in most countries around the world. I decided that I would not spend the rest of my life ...

In my library of Patchwork Jigsaws this blocks full number is 1234 1234 1234 1234 which is based on the direction the quarter circle faces in each quarter of the block. Here are two often used colorizations of the block.

And something a bit more adventurous.

Yes, exactly the same blocks, but with the colours. Even if you had not had an alcoholic drink in your life this would cause a few headaches resembling a hangover!

Much less of a headache with the one above.

And something much simpler as the last design for today.

Interesting …

… but I love the second design

A bit dull.

Not so dull, and I like it!

I keep finding stuff hidden away in Electric Quilt files … some of them dating back to 2013!

Many of them only have four or five designs, but his one has 24. Most of them are the basic blocks twisted and turned to see how they fit together, and these are interesting, but not show stoppers.

The second design is the basic block used in this series, in one of many possible colourings.

There are hundreds of ways to arrange the sixteen squares of the Drunkards Path pieces to create symmectrical blocks … these two designs are just two of them. Then ...

Very interesting.

The Drunkard’s Path design caught my attention the first time I saw a block. Then I saw a sampler quilt with 15 different arrangements of the two shapes in the blocks, and I already had a few sketches of ones not included in that sampler.

I did some maths one day, and the total number of possibilities is a very long number, and that is for a block with 16 squares.

I know I will never find them all, but it is good fun playing, and I did work out a system for finding the best ones ...

Another couple of Patchwork Jigsaws, also known as Drunkard’s Path.

These are the block colourings I liked using this block … note that the numbers relate to the placement of the 4 pieces in the top left hand corner of the first block. In the other variations of the block that combination is twisted and turned every which way to create different effects.

The last design in this project file is the same as the one at the top, but with the fabrics changing places, but not the pieces.

A long time since I opened up any Drunkard’s Path project files, but found this one and decided it was time to share the contents.

The second is the same as the first. I have changed the colour placement, but not the pieces. This is what has kept me playing with the two pieces which make up the blocks … every arrangement of the two pieces can produce totally different designs depending on exactly where the contrast is placed.

The third design is a combination of the first two designs … and I will share another couple of designs tomorrow.