Optical illusions are surely fascinating and amazing. Here are some optical illusion quilt pattern you can try as your next quilting project.

I've often admired quilters who create a series of works around a theme and I wanted to give it a try. The idea is to use regular quilt blocks - in this case the HRT (half-rectangle triangle) - to give an illusion of curves.* (My Harmony quilt design is another example.) My quilt Illusions is roughly 28" square. I used Painters Palette fabric in wasabi and black. (Wasabi is hard to photograph to get true color. The indoor photo shown below is closer to the real shade.) The quilting was done with a walking foot and some ruler work with my FMQ ruler foot to get the denser quilting I wanted inside the HRTs with some variety on the width between the lines. The black HRTs are not quilted. I took a deep breath before cutting off a corner to emphasize the curve. My original plan was a binding with a mitered corner bringing the two colors together. I struggled to get it to look as I wanted so faced binding it is! Have a wonderful day! Patty

This is the optical illusion quilts. They can be sewn into squares, wall hangings, circles, large quilts, art quilts in all kinds of colors and patterns.

This is the optical illusion quilts. They can be sewn into squares, wall hangings, circles, large quilts, art quilts in all kinds of colors and patterns.

I have been waiting and waiting to post this quilt on April Fool's Day...then I realized that this year, it fell on Easter Sunday. So, this April Fool is a double one - a trompe l'oeil , posted on the wrong day! *I would like to encourage you to read to the bottom of this post before Googling and clicking links you find online.* I did NOT design this quilt; I saw it online a good many years ago, and it has been on my bucket list all those years. It's a fabulous design, the brainchild of Ukrainian quilter Mezhibovskaya Valery Vadimovna, who blogs under the name lerusisik. You will notice I did not add any live links to her site as I normally would do. There's a reason... Lerusisik designed this quilt as part of a guild challenge on twisted log cabin blocks. They had 6 months to complete the challenge, and she came up with this brilliant design which she called "Through The Lens." Amazingly, it did not win the challenge. (? must have been some pretty strong competition in that guild!) She next entered it in a math contest (didn't win that either) and then decided to submit a picture of her quilt to a German magazine, Lena's Patchwork, who developed a pattern, and featured it on the cover. As happens, people began making the quilt and submitting it to shows and winning prizes, with no credit given to Lerusisik. They claimed the design as their own.I know how hurtful that is, and Lerusisik became quite upset about the whole thing. Earlier this year when I began my version of her quilt, I tried to revisit her website, with not very good results. My McAffee program refused to let me on the site, saying there was malicious code. I tried from a different computer, and Windows Defender gave the message, "Whoa - are you sure you want to go there? " Clicking a link from a saved sketch in Word gave the message, "this site contains viruses, click at your own risk." Hmm...I got brave (or stupid) and clicked it anyway. I got to the main page ok, and everything seemed fine, so I decided to try a link to Barbie doll clothes (that sounded innocent enough, right?) I ended up on a porn site. So...draw your own conclusions, but for these reasons I am not posting any live links to her site, and if you Google and click, do so at your own risk. I am not going back. Despite all of this, I still wanted to make the quilt! Originally, she had shared her working sketch, done in Corel Draw, on her site for readers to download (with permission), and I had saved that sketch. That's what I used to work from: In hindsight, I should have taken the time to draw this out in EQ8. It may not be obvious, but if you study the sketch, you will see that some of the blocks cannot be pieced as drawn. There were many last minute adjustments in strip sequence as I went. As you see in the magazine cover above, the original had multi-coloured centres but I chose to go with just 3 colours for the quilt: black, white, and Canada Red Kona cotton. I think the high contrast in colours helps add to the 3-D effect, and I like how clean and crisp the colours look together. There are only 4 square blocks in the entire piece (the corners), and these measure 4". The strips range from 1/2" to 1/8" wide, many of them curved. It was a nightmare to piece. I wasn't sure where all these pieces would fit in the final puzzle! I've done a fair bit of patchwork in my day, but this was truly difficult. About 6 blocks in, I decided I couldn't do it. I set it aside for a couple of weeks while I thought on it. It occurred to me that the piece is symmetrical side to side and top to bottom, so once I had the first quadrant of 9 blocks figured out, that would be the worst of it, as the shapes would repeat after that. I think I can, I think I can... Amazingly, as the blocks grew, the centre popped up right away. These are the sewn blocks before joining...which took another week or so to ponder. Since the blocks were all different sizes...how could I possibly join them in rows? It couldn't be done. I thought back to the Global Warming quilt I did last year, and a light bulb came on! I needed to join the centre blocks in a circle, and then insert them into the outside blocks, like sewing a sleeve in an armhole. There was a small fly in the ointment, as perhaps you can see below: No? Look here; there are gaps in the corners, where square meets round. I cut 2 triangles of black and 2 of white and hoped it would work. It did! :) About this time, Polly came along to shatter the illusion! The quilt is by no means perfectly made. There are strips that don't match up at the joining of the sphere to the background, but I did my best, and the illusion still works. Interestingly, I recall reading on Lerusisik's site that she also had issues figuring out how to join her blocks and finally sewed them together by hand, using an EPP method. I added a very simple border of black and white blocks and strips, which help add to the movement of the whole piece. It is quilted very simply using Aurifil white, black and red thread. All of the stitching is done in the ditch, so as not to detract from the fabric. This is far and away the most challenging patchwork project I've done. I cannot say I enjoyed making it, but I sure as heck enjoyed finishing it! If you would like to try your hand at this...I wish you the best of luck. Thank you, Mezhibovskaya Valery Vadimovna, for your very brilliant design. Beth of Mrs. Pugsley's Emporium has kindly invited me to display the quilt at her shop later this spring. I'll keep you posted on when that will be (I think we need to decide first who is climbing the ladder to hang it...).

Her finder du den originale version fra Caryl Bryer Fallert http://www.bryerpatch.com/faq/Illusion/IllusionWorkshop_HandDyes.pdf Kapitel 4. Skær og arranger dine strimler 150. Sådan, nu er du færdig med Kvadrat A og Square B, og papiret er fjernet fra bagsiderne. 151. Læg dine to kvadrater med forsiden nedad på en roterende skæremåtte, med spidserne vendt mod hinanden. 152. Læg din skærelineal op til de hvide mærker, du har lavet langs sømmerummet ved de stiplede linjer på dit mønster. 153. De strimler, du skærer, vil være ca. 1½"(3,75 cm). Dit frysepapir kan krympe lidt, når det bliver strøget, og da hvert strygejern har en forskellig temperatur, er det ikke muligt at angive en præcis temperatur. Hvis du bruger de hvide mærker som guider, vil du ende med strimler i samme bredde. 154. Skær begge kvadrater i strimler, og hold orden på dine strimler. 155. Sådan vil dine kvadrater vil se ud, efter at de er blevet skåret i 22 strimler. 156. Læg dit skærebræt på et stort bord eller på gulvet, mens du arrangerer dine strimler 157. Start med bunden af trekanten A, pegende mod højre. 158. Læg spidsen med trekanten B ved siden af den, pegende mod venstre 159. Tag den næste strimmel fra Trekant A ud 160. og den næste strimmel fra Trekant B 161. og så videre … 162. og så videre … 163. og så videre … 164. og så videre … Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 1 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 2 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 3 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 5 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 6

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Fortsættelse http://www.bryerpatch.com/faq/Illusion/IllusionWorkshop_HandDyes.pdf Kapitel 5. Samling at quilttoppen. Sammensyning af strimler og kanter 166. Når du har fået dine strimler lagt ud i orden, er det en god idé at holde orden på dem. Det er nemt at få byttet om på strimlerne på dette tidspunkt. 167. Start i den ene ende med dine første to stimler, læg dem sammen ret mod ret … 168. og tilpas kanterne. 169. Sæt en nål i de kanter du planlægger at sy sammen. Det første sæt strimler har det skarpe spids af trekanten #1. Sæt en nål lige igennem midten af sømmen præcis ved spidsen. 170. Sørg for at den kommer gennem sømmen på den anden strimmel en kvart inch (6 mm) fra kanten. 171. Start syning i midten af spidsen, så sømmen ikke har mulighed for at skride. 172. Stræk dine strimler, så enderne passer 173. Sy derefter en standard søm på en ¼” (6 mm). Brug en syl eller en stor nål til at stikke ned i sømmerummets løse kanter. 174. Når den første halvdel af sømmen er syet færdig, så vend dine strimler om og start fra midten igen. 175. Sy den anden halvdel af sømmen ved at bruge sylen igen for at stikke ned i de løse kanter af sømmerummet under trykfoden. En ”walking foot” fungerer bedst for at få strimlerne til at glide jævnt. 176. Når du har syet sømmen færdig, skal du sætte dit strygejern til damp 177. og pres sømmen, Du kan presse sømmen til siden, ... 178. eller du kan presse dem åbne. Ved at presse åbent tager det lidt længere tid, men det vil resultere i en mere flad quilt top. 179. Her er vores første to strimler. Du kan se, at vi har et fint skarpt punkt, hvor spidsen af trekanten A rammer bunden af trekanten B 180. Læg dine sammensyede strimler tilbage til de andre, så du ikke bliver forvirret. 181. Læg nu dine næste to strimler sammen ret mod ret. 182. og tilpas kanterne. 183. Det er en god ide at sætte nåle i den side, du vil sy i, så snart du tager strimlerne op. Det er meget nemt at komme til at sy de forkerte sider sammen, og vi kan jo ikke lide at pille søm op. 184. Du har ikke en trekantet spids i denne søm, så bare justér de to midtersømme… 185. Tilpas siderne i den ene ende og sy et par sting. Stræk strimlerne så enderne passer sammen og sy din søm. 186. På Berninas ”walking-foot” finder du en sømmarkering til en kvart inch søm lige her. 187. Når du når slutningen af din søm, tager du dine næste to strimler, og syr resten af dine strimler sammen i et ”kædeforløb”. 188. Bare fortsæt med at sy fra slutningen af et sæt strimler over på kanten af det næste sæt, uden afstand imellem. 189. De vil komme ud i en rækkefølge sammen som pølser. 190. Klip dem fra hinanden én ad gangen, i rækkefølge og pres dine sømme. 191. Læg dine par tilbage på gulvet eller bordet, i rækkefølge 192. Vi kan kalde disse for "tvillinger" 193. Læg nu dine "tvillinger" sammen ret mod ret. 194. Sy sømmene, pres, og nu har vi "firlinger" 195. Nu skal du samle dine ”firlinger” 196. og så videre … 197. og inden du ved det, har du en færdig quilt top. 198. Skær 1½"(3,75 mm) brede strimler af dit sorte stof til den indvendige bort. 199. Sy strimlerne på kanterne af din quilt top på alle fire sider. 200. Skær strimler af dit kulørte stof til din ydre bort. 201. Disse er en 4 inch (10 cm) bort af stof fra Caryls Glacier Park Collection fra Benartex. (Ombre Stripe 334-92 "Heavens Peak"). 202. For en bort på denne bredde skal du bruge en halv yard (halv meter) stof. Du skal bruge en ekstra 3/4" yard stof til din bagbeklædning og ophæng. Med smallere borter (3"/ 7,5 cm) eller derover, kan dine borter, bagbeklædning og ophæng alle skæres fra en yard, som vist på mønsterarket. 203. Her er den færdige top til quilten 204. I denne quilt er hjørnerne gerede 45 grader. Du kan lave gerede eller sy lige over. Sideborten her er gennemskåret for at harmonere farverne på borten i hjørnerne. 205. Skær et stykke mellemfoer lidt større end din quilt top. 206. Skær bagsidestoffet mindst 1" (2,5 cm) større end quilt toppen på alle sider. 207. Glat underlaget ud på et stort bord eller på gulvet. Her er bagsidestoffet lagt med retsiden nedad på et tæppe. Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 1 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 2 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 3 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 4 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 6

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Fortsættelse http://www.bryerpatch.com/faq/Illusion/IllusionWorkshop_HandDyes.pdf Kapitel 5. Samling at quilttoppen. Sammensyning af strimler og kanter 166. Når du har fået dine strimler lagt ud i orden, er det en god idé at holde orden på dem. Det er nemt at få byttet om på strimlerne på dette tidspunkt. 167. Start i den ene ende med dine første to stimler, læg dem sammen ret mod ret … 168. og tilpas kanterne. 169. Sæt en nål i de kanter du planlægger at sy sammen. Det første sæt strimler har det skarpe spids af trekanten #1. Sæt en nål lige igennem midten af sømmen præcis ved spidsen. 170. Sørg for at den kommer gennem sømmen på den anden strimmel en kvart inch (6 mm) fra kanten. 171. Start syning i midten af spidsen, så sømmen ikke har mulighed for at skride. 172. Stræk dine strimler, så enderne passer 173. Sy derefter en standard søm på en ¼” (6 mm). Brug en syl eller en stor nål til at stikke ned i sømmerummets løse kanter. 174. Når den første halvdel af sømmen er syet færdig, så vend dine strimler om og start fra midten igen. 175. Sy den anden halvdel af sømmen ved at bruge sylen igen for at stikke ned i de løse kanter af sømmerummet under trykfoden. En ”walking foot” fungerer bedst for at få strimlerne til at glide jævnt. 176. Når du har syet sømmen færdig, skal du sætte dit strygejern til damp 177. og pres sømmen, Du kan presse sømmen til siden, ... 178. eller du kan presse dem åbne. Ved at presse åbent tager det lidt længere tid, men det vil resultere i en mere flad quilt top. 179. Her er vores første to strimler. Du kan se, at vi har et fint skarpt punkt, hvor spidsen af trekanten A rammer bunden af trekanten B 180. Læg dine sammensyede strimler tilbage til de andre, så du ikke bliver forvirret. 181. Læg nu dine næste to strimler sammen ret mod ret. 182. og tilpas kanterne. 183. Det er en god ide at sætte nåle i den side, du vil sy i, så snart du tager strimlerne op. Det er meget nemt at komme til at sy de forkerte sider sammen, og vi kan jo ikke lide at pille søm op. 184. Du har ikke en trekantet spids i denne søm, så bare justér de to midtersømme… 185. Tilpas siderne i den ene ende og sy et par sting. Stræk strimlerne så enderne passer sammen og sy din søm. 186. På Berninas ”walking-foot” finder du en sømmarkering til en kvart inch søm lige her. 187. Når du når slutningen af din søm, tager du dine næste to strimler, og syr resten af dine strimler sammen i et ”kædeforløb”. 188. Bare fortsæt med at sy fra slutningen af et sæt strimler over på kanten af det næste sæt, uden afstand imellem. 189. De vil komme ud i en rækkefølge sammen som pølser. 190. Klip dem fra hinanden én ad gangen, i rækkefølge og pres dine sømme. 191. Læg dine par tilbage på gulvet eller bordet, i rækkefølge 192. Vi kan kalde disse for "tvillinger" 193. Læg nu dine "tvillinger" sammen ret mod ret. 194. Sy sømmene, pres, og nu har vi "firlinger" 195. Nu skal du samle dine ”firlinger” 196. og så videre … 197. og inden du ved det, har du en færdig quilt top. 198. Skær 1½"(3,75 mm) brede strimler af dit sorte stof til den indvendige bort. 199. Sy strimlerne på kanterne af din quilt top på alle fire sider. 200. Skær strimler af dit kulørte stof til din ydre bort. 201. Disse er en 4 inch (10 cm) bort af stof fra Caryls Glacier Park Collection fra Benartex. (Ombre Stripe 334-92 "Heavens Peak"). 202. For en bort på denne bredde skal du bruge en halv yard (halv meter) stof. Du skal bruge en ekstra 3/4" yard stof til din bagbeklædning og ophæng. Med smallere borter (3"/ 7,5 cm) eller derover, kan dine borter, bagbeklædning og ophæng alle skæres fra en yard, som vist på mønsterarket. 203. Her er den færdige top til quilten 204. I denne quilt er hjørnerne gerede 45 grader. Du kan lave gerede eller sy lige over. Sideborten her er gennemskåret for at harmonere farverne på borten i hjørnerne. 205. Skær et stykke mellemfoer lidt større end din quilt top. 206. Skær bagsidestoffet mindst 1" (2,5 cm) større end quilt toppen på alle sider. 207. Glat underlaget ud på et stort bord eller på gulvet. Her er bagsidestoffet lagt med retsiden nedad på et tæppe. Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 1 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 2 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 3 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 4 Strimmelteknik Illusion Quilt. Kapitel 6

Habe endlich das Top des Optical Illusion Quilts fertig. Die Vorlage dazu ist von Valerija Mezhybovska. Die Blöcke sind auf Papier genäht un...

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