Squares in Patchwork Quilts

Well to get me going I have been looking at an old needlework book I have had about 33 years. In it are some of the basic designs for patchwork quilts. Patchwork is now becoming so popular to either purchase or have a go at making. The first sentence in the book describes patchwork quilts as the Art of making designs by joining small pieces of odd materials together such as silk, satin, and chintz into a handsome piece of needlework.
Its manipulation requires both patience and neatness and also calls into play both the reasoning and artistic faculties, as the designs chiefly depend for their beauty upon the taste displayed in the arrangement and selection of the shades of colour used to make them.
This is a bit wordy to our use of English now but it really gives a good description. I would now add to this things such as recycling, environmentally friendly, individual, cool, quirky. So whether you have the time to make your own or you purchase they are beautiful things to have.
I love the 3D use of squares in this design
These are 2 patterns in the book to base a quilt on. The one above is called cellular patchwork and the one below is called Kaleidoscope Patchwork.
I think they are so like the OP ART of the 1960s. I like the use of the diamond type square in the middle. Visit the Tate on Line

Well that's my first post .I have really got inspired by these designs and I would love to see how they work in colour.

Thanks for reading

Quilt Krazy