Paintings become quilts
Erin Codey is a painter of quilts, among other things. These are patterns for making her paintings into quilts — every count, cut size and yardage measured off the painting itself rather than guessed at.
One block, thirty-six times. A dense grid of diamonds and stars that only resolves once the blocks are sewn together — half the shapes in it live across the seams.
Straightforward piecing, repeated. Two techniques, no applique.
A room, not a repeat. Two flat patterns — wallpaper and floor — cut to the shape of the walls, joined with white strips, with a bed and three empty pictures laid on top.
The same piecing, plus two diagonal cuts and four applique shapes.
Each pattern starts by measuring the painting rather than looking at it. The grid is fitted to the brushwork, the repeat is found by matching the design against itself, and each block is a majority vote across every copy of it in the painting — which is what recovers the intended design from a hand-painted one. Then every count, cut size and yardage on the page is computed from that one block definition, so the prose, the tables and the diagrams cannot drift apart.
Both patterns say plainly what was measured and what was a judgement call, and neither has been tested against real fabric. Make one block first.