March 09, 2010
Looking for a quilt pattern but I don’t know the name of the pattern to even start looking for it.?
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I just finished my first quilt based nursery and I am looking for a new project. I say a picture of a quilt that are fundamental, but turned so they are a diamond shape. The seats may be 9 X 9 or higher. It seems a simple model that can play with different fabrics. Any suggestions on how to know what the quilt pattern is called?
March 9th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Could it be a 9 patch quilt? Try this site.
http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/NinePatchBlocks.html
March 9th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Since you say the blocks were square but they were “turned so they were more of a diamond shape,” you probably just saw a quilt pattern where the (square) blocks were set “on point.”
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+“on+point”
(They’re not actual diamond shapes, as you noticed, which would be thinner in one dimension than the other from corner to corner. True diamonds are harder to deal with, though 2 equilateral triangles can be placed together to create fat diamond shapes and are easier than the one-piece skinnier diamonds to piece with.)
“On point” is just a kind of setting though and doesn’t have anything to do with what the individual square blocks might look like, how many there could be, whether they have lattices between them, etc.
When quilts are made this way, there are still “rows” of squares (which are later joined together) but they’re used diagonally. Because of that, there will need to be triangular “filler” blocks at the end of each row (or the end blocks could be more squares then all be trimmed to triangles when the top is made to create a rectangular finished top).
There are lots of other quilt patterns that use just squares too, from Trip Around the World
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+“Trip+around+the+world”
which uses one huge pattern of concentric rings of squares for a whole top, to individual blocks made from squares only like 4-patch or 9 patch
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+4-patch
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+9-patch
(or rectangles like Basketweave, RailFence, Brick, etc),
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+basketweave
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+“rail+fence”
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=quilt+“brick”
etc, which are joined together to make a top.
You might be interested in checking out some of the answers I’ve written before to new quilters about good patterns to try and basic quilting info… I think this recent answer has links to most all of those answers in it:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap4kilrCC4Io22pof7I4psUW53NG;_ylv=3?qid=20100103101721AAazSue
HTH,
Diane B.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I think that your basic square shape (9 x 9 or any size) takes on the look of a diamond when the blocks are set on point. This type of setting requires setting triangles and corner triangles. Most patterns will give you the size and quantity of triangles needed. This is a fun type of quilt to make. Good luck.