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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. #MathArt #LongRead #Quilting #Tiling #Tessellation
https://mzucker.github.io/2022/11/13/penrose-tiling-quilt.html
@matt_zucker a fellow math quilter! A few of us have gradually found each other over the years, mostly on IG.
@amyqualls Greetings!
Some of your quilts were showcased in my *other* Penrose quilt thread, where I foolishly attempted to exhaustively catalog every single one on the internet. Your work is gorgeous!
@matt_zucker (squee, she says, standing in her kitchen while squinting at her phone because her glasses fell off the nightstand and the Velma thing is real)
I figured out how I didn't know about the thread - you @'ed my public account, which I use for in-person conferences and little else.
Aside: I'm glad you were pointed to FPP. I came to the same, maddened conclusion. Best answer I've found: find someone with the right type of laser cutter, and get flexible Mylar FPP templates laser cut.
@amyqualls Laser-cut mylar - that's brilliant. Will keep that trick in my back pocket...
@matt_zucker I'm scrolling through the thread and cackling because someone else hit the same problems I did! For "Seven Brides" I did the full 14-point rosette in full, ONCE, to prove I could. (Liberty Tana Lawn FTW here, ask me why.) For the rest of the rosettes, I altered how I constructed the shape to make it more fabric-friendly: https://flic.kr/p/uYTAp2