Thread: Interlocking Puzzle Quilt

Here is one we made with tiny pieces.

I was just looking at the alphabet in CAPS to see which letters can be used to create puzzle quilts and have a never ending supply of new puzzle quilts to make by rotating or inverting it them.

I decided to look at the Latin alphabet to see which letters vaguel resemble letters that can be rotated or mirrored to create many puzzle quilts with never ending possibilities.

I found that these letters L, N, I, P, F, Y, T, U, V, W, and Z can be mirrored or rotated to create an endless supply of squares and rectangles to create puzzles.

Now I am going to have fun. I bought myself a 3 ring binder yesterday with a grid tablet and lined tablet to experiment with so I hope to have fun this month with it and see what I can come up with.

As I was sitting here thinking on this I remembered that last fall I had purchased from AccuCut to use in my Accuquilt Studio some math sets to do just that, create puzzles. I went about trying to find it and took a while because they were not moved into my cutting room like I had asked my son to do the other month. I have sitting here four different Pentominoes Sets to play with. I simply forgot I had them until now. For those of you who may wonder what a Pentominoes is, a pentomino is a polyomino composed of five congruent squares connected along their edges.

I think what I will do is use these Pentominoes dies to cut various colors in cardstock first to create templates and start manipulating it onto my grid paper to see what type blocks I can create with it. Since I have a wide format printer up to 13 x 19 I'll have enough wiggle room to create at least 12 by 18 inch blocks or smaller. My using colored paper will save m from using so much ink and process it all using black ink. If I'm not mistaken somewhere in this house I still have even patterned paper I use to use when I did papercrafting so might as well use that up and create templates to design and create a multitude of puzzle quilts.

Any and all tessellations are 'interlocking' by definition. They can be as complex or as simple as you want to make them. One example of an interactive design site is this one.
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/tess.htm

Bless you GhostRider for that link .... it'll be much quicker for designing layouts than the old graph paper method!

Originally Posted by QuiltE

Bless you GhostRider for that link .... it'll be much quicker for designing layouts than the old graph paper method!

And they even spell 'colour' correctly, right? LOL

Up at the top, they also have grids for triangles and what they call Escher-style, which is really just one that combines squares AND triangles. It's a great website. Enjoy!

Yessirreee ... M'am! (a Brit Site!)
And it was all those variables that got me excited .... link saved, thanks to you Ghostie!

there is one out there, I bought it several years ago and its very nice. Im not at home right now so cant tell you the name etc but if you dont find it, I'll dig it out once we return from vacation