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Just published a blog post consolidating my 4-month long Twitter thread about the design and fabrication of my Penrose tiling quilt, please check it out!

Feel free to reply to this toot with any questions or comments about the article or the project.

mzucker.github.io/2022/11/13/p

Needlessly complexPenrose tiling quiltMaking my first quilt, based on a famous mathematical tessellation.
CantabKitty

@matt_zucker I wanted to do this too! But the other penrose version that doesn’t have arrow heads. I bought laser cut paper pieces for it but they are 1.5” size so anticipate spending the rest of my life hand sewing them together

@cantabkitty I've done hand-sewng piecing. It really helps to have a podcast or a youtube video that you can just listen to the audio of. Good luck!

@matt_zucker I think you’d enjoy my cross stitch project I spent all of Lockdown 1 doing (65k stitches) I watched a lot of tv