Penrose Tile Quilt - Rainbow Rings

I made another Penrose tile quilt:

I wanted to design a penrose tile quilt that highlighted the decagons more than the Stars.

Design Phase

I started with this tiling:

The red square indicates the final area of the finished quilt.

Then I deflate each rhombus 3 levels:

Then I remove the extra rhombi:

Then I color it to highlight the deccagons:

Patchwork Phase

Like my previous Penrsose tiling quilts, I used the English Paper Piecing method to construct the quilt.

One innovation I came up with was to print the paper pieces with the instructions printed on them:

This helped a lot because on previous Penrose tile quilts I kept getting confused and making mistakes - it's a lot trickier then hexies.

It took a lot of time to add these instruction on each piece, but it saved a lot of headache and now I can skip this step and reuse these pieces if I ever wanted to do this pattern again.

Quilting Phase

This was my first attempt at hand quilting.

The pattern I followed was this Penrose Tile matcing rule:

Baby B's Crib Quilt

This a crib quilt for a friend of mine who will be born in March:

I made it by alternating these snowball blocks:

 with these blocks:

 Thusly:

to create a linked-ring effect.

I liked the effects that alternating snowball blocks had when I made the sawtooth star crib quilt, so I thought I'd revist that block.

I chose to keep the brown fabric all the same while making the blue fabrics scrappy because I liked that effect when I did that with my Snail's Trail Quilt

My new year's resolution is to complete a quilt every month.  I finished this in February.

Barb's Tiptop Block Quilt

My New Year's resolution for 2020 is to complete a quilt every month.  This is the quilt I completed for January:

Backstory:

 At the school I work at, the doorways have glass windows alongside them.  One of the the classrooms doorways is shared with the administrative area and the instructor wanted to block the windows so the students wouldn't get distracted so she covered it with paper:

The instructor, Barb, dabbled in quilting awhile ago, but no longer does it.  When she found out I was a quilter, she gave me her fabric stash.  This made me very happy, so I made her a quilt that she could hang in the window instead of the paper using some of the fabric she gave me:

That was the idea anyway.  It turns out that by the time I finished the quilt, Barb no longer taught in that classroom, but she has the quilt hanging in the glass beside her office doorway instead.

Design Phase:

I found this block by looking through this Ginny Beyer book (The Quilters Album of Patchwork Patterns).  It's called a Tiptop Block.  I noticed that it could be foundation pieced so I drew up these foundations in Inkscape: