Sunday Serendipity – Still Square

Squares can be pretty interesting.  Especially if you combine several together.

For instance, this block looks like a square with diagonal creases, but it is actually four squares—each folded and interlocked with the others.

When you roll back the folded edges, you see something quite different.  Pretty cool, but let’s see what else I can do.

For this one, I made the squares from different colored triangles and you get some contrast when the edges are rolled back.  Hmmm.  Does that look fuzzy to you?  I didn’t notice at the time because I was already thinking of how to carry the square even further!

This time I used a stripe for two of the squares, paired with two solid colored squares – and I stitched four of those to make a 4-patch block.

If you were very observant, you might have noticed that there are two directions to weave the squares.  For this 4-patch, I interlocked two squares in a clockwise direction and the other two counter-clockwise.  

 

Then, by rolling the edges on only the solid color pieces I got this very interesting set of curved shapes.  I like that!  This is starting to be a load of fun!

There are a lot more variations on the square, but I’ve run out of time for this week.  Next week I’ll look at some other shapes . . . triangles and hexagons, here I come!