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Mar 10Liked by Stacey Taylor

Love this! Reminds me of the art math class I took in college. Thanks for sharing.

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Oh wow, an art math class! Sounds like fun!

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It was! Amazingly, I found the class syllabus if you’re interested to check it out: https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.pattern/index.html

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Awesome, thank you so much for sharing!

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This I have to play with. I didn’t know it was possible to create a random number generator in a spreadsheet. Going to take a look in Excel. Thank you for the inspiration ☺️

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Mar 25Liked by Stacey Taylor

So great. With the zero (white) did you vary that as well? It looks like there is a cream and a white-white?

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Good eye! Yes there are a few shades of off-white here. The background is mostly a cream color that I happened to have a lot of in my stash, but there is a smattering of other whites in there — some that are more of a soft grey or stone color, others a bit brighter white.

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This is phenomenal, a perfect marriage of science and art

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Mar 13Liked by Stacey Taylor

Gorgeous quilt and I LOVE hearing about your influence and the spreadsheet! I do love a spreadsheet 😉 Thank you so much for sharing this!

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Mar 13Liked by Stacey Taylor

Thank you for your generosity in sharing this approach. I am returning from several forced weeks away from my sewing studio and I think that this type or colorful, creative, and scrap-busting project is just what I need to get me back and pushing the pedal.

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I highly recommend it! Definitely shook me out of my usual mode of over-thinking. It felt good to just move fast and loosen up a little. Enjoy the return to your sewing studio!

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this was seriously fascinating and I love that it was a bit of a mathematical problem that turned into art. The whole time I was reading your method I kept thinking of this radio lab episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pgMyGGQMEhbhiYqCJFUE1?si=JlT6thANSSiKCZIf2z5k5g

Thanks for sharing!! I can't wait to see it post long arm 😍

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Cool, thanks for the link! I love Radiolab. 😊

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Mar 11Liked by Stacey Taylor

I love how this turned out! The first time I saw this series I also thought they would translate so well to a quilt and I'm so glad to see it perfectly executed. 🤓

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