Chip Carving Class - Quilt Squares #7: Lesson 3: Pattern Development, Part 2

that helps alot, sometime ago I got a copy of George Bains CELTIC ART< The Method of Construction 1951,1973. I’d like to try to include s psrt of the page attached, if I would not be jumping into to deep water. This book is great I got it when I started teaching (subbing) and used it and an Escher book a great deal.
Thanks again for everything
lew

-- lew (woundedthumb) Pennsylvania, http://woodworkerwoundedthumb.com

Marty, I did this one a while ago. Will this work ok?

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Yes! That pattern will work fine. Good job getting this pattern ready to go!

-- Marty, https://www.MyChipCarving.com, 866-444-6996

Marty,

Here is my first attempt at a pattern. Only the left quarter is finished, I will repeat the pattern in the other three quarters. I’m not sure how this will look carved out so I’ll probably carve a test quarter on a practice board first to see if I like it.

-- Cubie

Has anyone used “tessellations” as a source for patterns? A Google of the word will given you all you ever wanted to know about the math concept. Here is a example—Is something like this workable for chip carving?

-- Merrill, Cody, Wyoming

Cubie, good pattern development and good idea to practice first on another board before carving the ‘real McCoy’. I like what I see!

-- Marty, https://www.MyChipCarving.com, 866-444-6996

Marty:
I must be blind or ?? I can’t seem to find the grid size you are working with. I work with graph paper or Corel Draw and I need the grid size to make sure the math is working, and also to have the right size chip. I think. Am I missing something?
Phil

Hi Phil,
Start with a 4mm grid when you are first starting out.
I’ll demonstrate this in the next lesson, due out any day now.
4mm is a nice size to begin with.

The patterns you see in this lesson are larger than 4mm. I’ll be providing these patterns for you so there’s no need to draw them yourself.

-- Marty, https://www.MyChipCarving.com, 866-444-6996

Thanks, I thought 4mm was the grid size but some of the patterns I was seeing above are 3 squares or more and that is what confused me. Some of the chips in the sample quilt squares are much bigger than 4mm. I actually went to 5mm and that was easier for me.

Glad to know you are providing the patterns.
Phil

Here is my first attempt at a pattern. Just squares inside squares.

-- Merrill, Cody, Wyoming

That pattern will carve very nicely, Merrill!
Well done!

-- Marty, https://www.MyChipCarving.com, 866-444-6996

I used Google Sketchup to do the drawing. Then once I get it like I want I export it to photo editing software to get the size i want. In this one I inscribed squares inside squares rotating 90 degrees each time. Then I erase what I don’t want. I worry that the triangles are too large for me to carve nicely.

-- Merrill, Cody, Wyoming

I worry that the triangles are too large for me to carve nicely.

If the triangles are too large, subdivide them to make them more manageable. If dividing them in half still leaves them too big, try dividing in thirds or fourths.

-- Marty, https://www.MyChipCarving.com, 866-444-6996