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Rule 73 Quilt

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This quilt was made between January and May 2015; I'd embargoed the photos pending it making its way to its new home, which it did this month, when I travelled to Toronto (on somewhat short notice).

The pattern is a rule 73 cellular automata. The seed is lightly engineered to get the width/look I wanted - I generated a bunch with random seeds, then picked out sections I liked and shifted them around. Scale is 1" per square, and it's strip pieced in panels, and machine quilted in vertical lines, out of Kona "tomato" and Kona white.

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red and white quilt of rule 73 cellular automata pattern

Rocky Mountain Puzzle blocks

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This needs a something. Like editing out the harsh colors? I think the block is called 'rocky mountain puzzle'. I decided I could show off the horrid color combinations better if I cleaned off the porch table, and photographed it in day light (and without a dog trying to walk across it), but I got distracted by cleaning the porch table (which needed a coat of oil).

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quilt blocks on floor

Tumbling blocks, revisited

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I've shared these before, which are a curiosity that fell out of some code that I wrote to tile dominos for a puzzle. Rather than thinking of it as packed diamonds, I started from triangles, then paired them, and arrived at the very op-art look quite by accident.

It's not so far away from the "tumbling blocks" quilt pattern, but picking colors for it seemed challenging; three solids is just too flat. Now I am considering the idea of using two greys plus an assortment of prints, lightly sorted.

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equilateral triangles randomly paired
equilateral triangles randomly paired (with hand-shading)

Quilt

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George was helping me lay out the border of this quilt a week or so ago, and he got very excited about it and claimed it for himself. The blocks spent really quite a long time languishing in a heap without a lot of layout inspiration, but I finally came up with a border that makes me quite happy with it. It's quilted fairly lightly, with a continuous curve through all of the white triangles.

Perhaps I will take another photo of it in daylight, but there was really less than 15 minutes between putting the last stitch in the binding, and George taking it to bed with him.

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Crumb Blocks

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There's some fabulous crumb quilts around the internet, and I keep coming back to the concept and trying my hand at it, but I find them very hard to pull off.  I seem to get wedged in a loop of premature optimization, as I try to figure out how to optimally use each tiny scrap.

Here's the whole of my accumulated supply:

Quilting the Hexagon Quilt

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I ordered some kimono silk quilting thread from https://www.superiorthreads.com/ (neither of my convenient local retailers carry anything in the ballpark), layered the big hexagons quilt, and made Monty spend half his Sunday morning tinkering with my sewing machine to adjust for a quilting foot not to go "thump thump thump," and dug into the quilting on this quilt.

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