{"id":70563,"date":"2026-04-26T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70563"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:07:23","slug":"fiddling-with-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fiddling-with-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling with Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not going to tell you the secrets of Chaos with a Twist. It will be well worth your while to take the class from Libs Elliott when she offers it. <\/p>\n

I talked about my design the other day<\/a>. I could fiddle with it endlessly, both the design itself, the placement of the blocks and the colors. I will tell you one secret. Using a 10-side die can help the process. The YM is an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, so I thought there had to be at least one 10-side die in the house despite the fact that he hasn’t lived with us for several years. I rummaged through his night table, his desk drawers for one die. I found a lot of change, old gift cards, a multitude of pens and pencils, but no 10-sided die anywhere. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I went looking online and saw they all come in sets of ~7 to ~100. I really didn’t want 7 die much less 100, so I reached out for advice. In the meantime, I went to play with the blocks as best I could.<\/p>\n

\"Chaos<\/a>
Chaos with a Twist Color #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the first round of the second quilt design I chose the smaller grid and chose blocks I liked. <\/p>\n

Then I expanded the design as Libs instructed in the class.<\/p>\n

I don’t think this design is as successful even if I change the colors to the pink, black, white and grey I used in the first design. It is possible that if I fiddled around the second design some more that it would be improved. <\/p>\n

\"Chaos<\/a>
Chaos Design 2 Colorway 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think the random aspect really adds to the interest of the design process.<\/p>\n

I also think the larger grid is more appealing.<\/p>\n

I made a larger version of this design, which meant adding blocks and I had some problems. First, I didn’t like randomly adding blocks just to fill in a space. The decision felt like too much pressure. I know that sounds dumb, but there we are. Also, my mind has a certain aesthetic it likes. Without the randomness factor, I lean into that aesthetic. I think the larger version is more interesting, but not as interesting as the first design.<\/p>\n

\"Chaos<\/a>
Chaos Design 2 Colorway 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not going to tell you the secrets of Chaos with a Twist. It will be well worth your while to take the class from Libs Elliott when she offers it.  I talked about my design the other day. I could fiddle with it endlessly, both the design itself, the placement of the blocks … Continue reading “Fiddling with Chaos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[9,311,312],"class_list":["post-70563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-class","tag-creativity","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70570,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions\/70570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}