With basic geometric designs it's unlikely that you could actually come up with a new block .... but then when is it a new block, some take changing dark/light fabric placement in a block as new - I so would love to introduce the the concept of the work, expression, manifestation and item .... so here goes MY "item":
One day while sitting in the corridor waiting for my profs consultation hour I whiled away my time drawing grids and filling them with colour. And came up with a pattern I thought perfect for a Bee with flying geese blocks. So at home I sat down and drew the pattern. And wrote a tutorial (that seems to case a headache for a lot of people, though they can't tell me where the problem is)
And then Jen from Quilter in the Closet made my block and linked to this picture: which is pretty much my block in old and white and red instead of yellow and blue and new
So today while I was leafing through books (real paper ones and electonic versions) looking for a pattern I would like to use to decimate my green and ble stash (ok I was avoiding to clean the bathroom). I came across some fairly similar patterns.
There are actually quite a few similar blocks:
Nancy Cabot has one with only 4 flying gees and also they point inwards
Home Art Studios has one named Tangled Cobwebs with same as Nancy's but with tiny squares in the corners
The others all have a lot more flying geese, but still all pointing inward - Spider Web/Wild Goose Chase (Mrs. Danner's Quilts) and Rising Sun (Miall) do have an 8 point star in the centre the geese pointing inwards and a border of HSTs to be connected to form more 8 pointed stars in the corners and flying geese wehn joined together.
Do you ever try to find out where a pattern comes from?
One day while sitting in the corridor waiting for my profs consultation hour I whiled away my time drawing grids and filling them with colour. And came up with a pattern I thought perfect for a Bee with flying geese blocks. So at home I sat down and drew the pattern. And wrote a tutorial (that seems to case a headache for a lot of people, though they can't tell me where the problem is)
And then Jen from Quilter in the Closet made my block and linked to this picture: which is pretty much my block in old and white and red instead of yellow and blue and new
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| picture courtesy of: liveauctoneers.com |
There are actually quite a few similar blocks:
Nancy Cabot has one with only 4 flying gees and also they point inwards
Home Art Studios has one named Tangled Cobwebs with same as Nancy's but with tiny squares in the corners
The others all have a lot more flying geese, but still all pointing inward - Spider Web/Wild Goose Chase (Mrs. Danner's Quilts) and Rising Sun (Miall) do have an 8 point star in the centre the geese pointing inwards and a border of HSTs to be connected to form more 8 pointed stars in the corners and flying geese wehn joined together.
Do you ever try to find out where a pattern comes from?
Now out of curiosity I might attempt to make one of those blocks too ... see where I could have made something different / better ....
And I will have to think about adding a sashing similar to the Spider Web/ Wild Goose Chase and Rising Sun blocks - though I will try a mock up fist ...
Oh no, what a pity! But your block looks great. I really like it . Although it seems to be really a lot of sewing.
ReplyDeleteHey Leo, That's a great block pattern! and I like you colors. And yes it's pretty hard to come up with a completely original design. 200 yrs or so of block design by quilter's and a couple of thousand years of geometric surfaces designs of a kinds makes it pretty difficult! But it was original to you at the time and the 'play' involved is really what matters?! cheers!
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