tilings

I survived the second go-live of the week today, and my brain is sloshy and very liquid. I've been sifting through the piles of fabric I cut during the week-long power outage after the April 27th tornadoes…

and Pentatonic is actually starting to take shape. The insane idea of using only two fabrics is actually working.

There are a couple of small mistakes in my template, but it's useful for planning the general idea:

For those of you who are my seven regular readers of domesticat.net, this post isn't for you; this post is a rehash of some previous posts, plus photos, for the Quilt Bloggers' Festival. It's for a lot of people who didn't see this little quilt while it was in progress.

I'd like to introduce you to a pattern that is almost never seen in quilting. It's so similar to what you're accustomed to that it'll take you a moment or two to recognize that something about this pattern is off, and different:

['Finality']

As ideas go, this is a pretty insane one. I’ve been routing my creativity off in a few different directions while stumped on how to proceed with Adam’s wedding quilt (sigh, hang head in shame, lather, rinse, repeat) and this direction has been stranger than most.

I’ve made no secret of my intention of doing a Penrose tiling quilt (‘Pentatonic’) later this year, and it has sent my brain in lots of new directions. It’s caused me to look hard at Islamic tiling patterns, which meant I encountered more aperiodic tilings, and started looking at patterns that weren’t based on the fours, sixes, eights, and nines of standard quilting.