One-Patch Wonders

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity)

As you know, EQ6 comes with a feature known as Serendipity, by which you can merge two block to create a third one. But that is not what I am referring to here. In trying to resolve a puzzling event while drawing a quilt, I quite accidentally discovered something quite wonderful, indeed.

While playing around with one-patch quilt layouts, I was trying to figure out why with some of my hexagon quilts I am not able to get a yardage estimate, while with others this feature works fine.

Example: take a look at the two quilts below. Take note of the orientation of the hexagons.

Now look at this example, where I chose a different orientation for the hexagons:

The fabrics simply do not appear in the yardage estimate preview. Ok, so I discovered a small glitch. That's still not the point...

I started playing around with the different patch styles, to see if that affected this puzzling situation with the yardage estimate. (And yes, it occurs with the Trapezoid (V) style, so it seems that the problem lies in the one-patch vertical layout).

Using the first quilt as an example, look at what happens as you change the patch style. (YOU may have known this, but I just discovered it, so it's quite a EUREKA moment for me!) (-:

Now, how cool is that?

This does not work well with the other one-patch options (i.e. from Thousand Pyramids down the line), because it sets up rows of uncolored patches between the rows of colored patches. But for the options above I think it's a nifty idea: when designing one-patch quilts, check out the different options!