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Quilting the Quilt - Which CS Feature To use
Phase 2 - Blocks
Stitch a Composite Pattern
that the center one was reduced a bit to make more space available for the corners.
Each corner was rotated, 78 resized 77 and repositioned 78 individually. If these
patterns will be used repeatedly and the piecing is very accurate, this would be a
good set of patterns to rubber stamp. The 5 patterns would be grouped
automatically, so the rubber stamped copy would be a single pattern.
Example 4: Odd shaped spaces are challenging too. In this example, a small
triangular pattern was chosen because it had curvature that was very similar to the
center block. When the triangular pattern touches the center pattern, it gives a very
custom look.
The center pattern was rotated and placed first. The four triangles were sized next
and then rotated to the correct orientation. (The top triangular pattern is detached to
demonstrate how the patterns fit.) This might be a good set of patterns to rubber
stamp too.
Example 5: Even Point To Point patterns can be used to fill a block. In this example,
one of the four P2P patterns 128
has been stitched so it is red.
The pattern's shape was triangular, and the P2P clicks were done at the corners of
the square block. It took five clicks to complete this design; the last click and the first
click were on the same point which connected the patterns. Originally, because the
patterns were triangular they touched at the center point, and looked too dense.
Since each P2P pattern is editable, they were individually selected and the height
reduced so they do not touch in the center. The result demonstrates better balance.
Because the composite pattern needs to stitch into the corners of the block (and
blocks are rarely square) it might be better not to group these patterns.
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