One of the blogs a follow is Wayne Kollinger's Sketch Book. I find his exploration of what works and what doesn't endlessly fascinating (regardless of whether I always agree with his aesthetics). His most recent post explores the idea of designing a new quilt block by adding to the underlying grid. He took several 3x3 blocks, adding a frame to give a 5x5 design space with the original block at its center.I thought this looked like a wonderfully fun idea, but decided to work from 4x4 blocks. Here are some of my first results, built around the "Crown of Thorns" block (above right).
I came up with three different new blocks, each of which I quite like:
And here are three quilts with those three blocks:
3 comments:
SaraJoan
I am absolutely delighted to see what you've done with my idea. I hope you do more.
You realize, of course, that your 4x4 grid blocks have a 2x2 grid core, and that it is possible not only to add an outer shell, making a 5x5 grid block, but to change the central core as well. This creates the potential for even more designs.
Keep playing and having fun.
Oops, I should not have said 5x5 grid blocks; I should have said 6x6 grid blocks.
Pardon my mis-mathematics.
Very cool ideas! Makes me wish for longer days and shorter to-do lists!
Elsie
http://elsiequilts.blogspot.com/
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