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.