On my drive in to work each day I usually have to stop at the light where several streets converge.  Rt 52 splits into Pennsylvania and Delaware Avenues to go around a small park and a couple blocks of the DuPont Company offices.

The Brandywine building faces me as I sit at a light that is so often red.  It is an office tower that has curved edges giving it the appearance of a semi-round building.  It has the creamy concrete color like many office buildings; but the way the dark paned windows are set in and the light hits the curves it creates an interesting block design.

I like patterns and so I drew up these ‘window blocks’ as a 5 inch quilt block.   It’s comprised of just 5 pattern pieces for 9 parts per block.  There is an endless number of color/print combinations.

Check out the patterns in the world around you.  See if you can create a pattern from the shapes that present themselves.

And let me know if you’d like the pattern for my Brandywine Block.