EQ Tutorial Tuesday- serendipity blocks

I saw a question somewhere a while ago (probably the FB EQ group) about if you design a quarter of a block, is there a way to quickly make the other 3 quarters so you have a full block and I had to play a little to find out but it’s very easy!

First I designed a block

and you COULD make it a 4×4 layout or something like that and flip the blocks around

from this

to this

but there’s an easier way!

in the block work table at the top menu bar there’s BLOCK/ serendipity

the first one is frame block and you have lots of options

you select the frame on the left and the block on the right and then add to sketchbook

the next one is tilt block

which is helpful for blocks if you want it tilted in different angles or even 45 degrees

the next one is merge blocks

I guess that would be fun like this

next is clip and flip

the little flags at the bottom tells you what way you want to clip and flip

this is like a D9P

Ummm, starting to look like a swastika! don’t want that!!

I’ll come back to shrink and flip but the next is kaleidoscope

just a nine patch looks fun

on the right you can pick which section of the block you want to use

the last one is fancy star

you can pick how many star points you want

now back to shrink and flip!

it takes the block and duplicates it 4 times

look what it does to the braid block!

play around with the flags it can change the block

Quite some different looks!

You can play around with these serendipity options and come up with some fun new blocks!