Triangles are one of the most basic primal shapes. It’s hard to say which one is my favourite out of square, circle and triangle, but for the moment let me say I’m on a triangle jag 🙂 or should I say ‘another’ triangle streak.

The following is a slice of detail of a scrap quilt I made for us in 2009 without any intention to exhibit it, because even then it wasn’t innovative, but looking back it might be said to be Modern at least. It was also something I needed to do for my love of triangles and improvisational piecing. I had it machine quilted with a lovely ginko leaf pattern by a Colorado longarm quilter whose name escapes me now, unfortunately.

So a few weeks ago I had another compulsion to feature interrupted triangle shapes. This time I used hand appliqued stripes of strips that I’ve assembled and begun using in the last month or so (see recent posts) And though I love regular grids, I made this one irregular while still suggesting organisation.

At this point I’m thinking about the background, those dark spaces. They need to to be patterned either by wavy horizontal-ish lines linking and/or echoing the stripy strips or the texture could echo ‘the triangle’ shape itself. I’m considering a hand quilted mesh of dotted meandering lines forming irregular triangular patterns – and will need to do a sample of course. Where those lines intersect I’d put either a dot or a tiny triangle of some kind…. and at this point I declare my admiration for the beautiful stitch-like paintings of Australian artist Shane Drinkwater which I know are influencing how I see this work moving forwards.