Progress with the bits of purple

how funny, I was thinking about penrose tilings today and considering making a quilt, I found a finished one at this site

and it includes how they hung it! Anne

Oh! I'd looked at that one months ago, before I started, but I'd forgotten that they explained how they mounted it. Thank you!

Louise

Lovely. Isn't piecing by hand fun? Actually if you use a fairly "stiff" batting, like Warm and Natural/White, a multi sided wall hanging will hang fine with a sleeve across the top. If you go to the Hoffman Challenge and look at my quilt ( second place, pieced) you can see what I mean. No additional whatever, just a sleeve across one of the straight sides. (I don't have a picture of the quilt of my own. Forgot to take one before I mailed it in, so the only picture I "have" is on the Challenge site. sigh. It will be coming home in a couple of months, then I will get a pic up on my webshots.)

So, go ahead and make a five sided quilt of it. If you don't mind hanging it from one side. If you want to hang it point up... try a back piece along the top, down to just below the next corners, of TimTex. Put your sleeve along the bottom edge of that, so that the quilt is supported across between 2 corners. (Hope that makes sense......)

Pati, in Phx a fan of "other than square/rectangular quilts"

Louise wrote:

That will be stunning no matter how you finish it, Louise.

Just great Louise. And in PURPLES!!! How wonderful. My favorite color. Or is it Green. I guess that it depends on the day.

Anyways, where did you find the directions for this? I have always got to have something to work on while traveling, watching TV, Inservice meetings at school, you get the drift. I would love to get the pattern. I have done some searching on the web, but no specific directions.

Thanks for any pointing in the right direction.

Steve Alaska

I'm enjoying the hand piecing a lot more than I expected to. Once I got into the rhythm of how long it takes, it's fun and relaxing. And it's handy to be able to squeeze and fudge a bit when coming up to a point where five, six, or seven pieces meet. I can do it at a campground picnic table, on a bus, or when riding in the car.

The first photos at this link

my progress so far. I took most of them while I was camping, andit hadn't been pressed yet. It looks better pressed. One interesting thing - I made a mistake in the pattern, and documented it before ripping part out and fixing it. For the pattern to work mathematically, there can't be two "parallel" identical pieces touching each other. Can you see the mistake in the close-up shot?

Also, those of you who sent me purple squishy packages, can you recognize the fabrics you sent me?

I'm not sure how much farther I'll continue, or what I'll do with it afterwards. I'll probably finish with a set of pattern pieces all in one dark purple fabric, then trim them. But after all that five-fold symmetry, I kind of hate to make it square on the outside. Maybe I could make a five-sided wall hanging, with some kind of stiffeners on three sides? Or maybe make it circular, with bias binding and no borders and one of those springy rods that people use for curtain rods in a semicircular window? Any suggestions?

Louise, in Kingston Ontario

I saw a large wallhanging with a deep pocket on the upper back. A piece of

1/4 inch foamcore was cut to fit in the pocket, following the shape of the quilt- like the way a clothes hanger is shaped to fit the shoulders of a garment. With the foamcore to stiffen it, the quilt could be hung like a picture, but it could be removed for laundering or packing

Jane in NE Ohio-cool and rainy

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:30:53 -0800, "steve" wrote:

I started with a friend challenging me with a pointer to the wikipedia page on Penrose tiling

Other quilts using Penrose tiling or variations that I found included this one: and this one: and this one: and Patti's: All of them use the two-different-diamonds kind of tiling. There are templates for the diamonds here. One that uses the "kites and darts" form is here Then I came across some papers in a math journal which explained more about the properties of the tilings. is the firstand more relevant. Although there are a lot of possible ways toarrange the tiles, there are very few ways that can be continuedindefinitely. The Java applets connected with these papers let youlay out the tiles according to various rules. I decided that I wantedmy pattern to be rotationally symmetric and also to be indefinitelyextensible, so I used the Java thing that tests for extensibility totry out various patterns (linked below). Unfortunately, the programcan only make a certain size of pattern before timing out. According to this if you want it to be indefinitely extensible, you have to start with a 5-pointed star in the middle.

Louise in Kingston Ontario

Louise, Wow. That's just about all I can think of to say. I'm so impressed with your hand work and with the whole idea of sewing perfectly fitting pieces with such precision. It makes my head spin to think of it. So, I won't. LOL. I will just look at your gorgeous work and sigh.

Sunny

The purple is just fabulous and I envy the patience you have with handsewing, I can't sit still long enough ;o)

Wendy in NSW

Have you thought about trying EPP? Precision and the ability to use hand piecing fudge factor :-) Works for any shape!

Thanks for this I've been thrying to figure out how to draw templates either by hand or PC and do so accurately. With this I should be able to scale the templates to the size I want :-)

I'm very impressed with this, looks wonderful! These things do tend to grow. You could simply applique the final piece to a large piece of purple (and trim out the back so it remains one layer if you like). I've used circular pieces for center medallions. One became a table mat for a small round table. To hang, you could add a "sleeve" in the form of a pocket that covers the top half of the quilt, and cut a piece if thick cardboard to fit. Then add appropriate hangers depending on how you plan to attach it to the wall. Roberta in D

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That is certainly something to be proud of, I really like it. I don't have any ideas about the finishing though. Just that I agree, you wouldn't want it to be square.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

That's so neat! I love the concept, stretching blocks into a diamond shape.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Thanks!

Louise, in Kingston Ontario

I actually just drew them, using a protractor and drawing tools and a mechanical pencil. I hate tracing things. I experimented first with drawing and cutting out cardstock, to see if I was precise enough to have them fit together and to figure out what size I wanted. Then (after some very valuable consultation on the newsgroup) I ended up using an old rotary cutter to cut the templates out of plastic.

Louise, in Kingston Ontario

Thank you..... I have fun with the diamonds. Still working on my quilted diamonds from Linda Franz's books.

Pati,in Phx

The colors are lovely and I like the way my eyes go 'in and out' with the values !! Are you following a quilt pattern?...I was wondering how you will finish it off . Very interesting quilt . Mary in VT

this out how to draw in EQ5!!! there are severalideas you haveto look around..... mauvice in central WI