Memorial Scrapbook: Altair Pages

[ysabetwordsmith]

I finished a couple of Altair Designs pages for Mom's memorial scrapbook. For journaling or other craft purposes, note that the squarish ones leave a good bit of blank space at the bottom of the page. You can trim if you want smaller or more decorate margins, but if you leave it, you've got room to put another image or a journaling block there.


This design uses Penrose stars. Penrose tiles are aperiodic; they have regular subsections but cannot be regular throughout. This makes them very interesting to color. There are many variations. Mom and I enjoyed talking about things like this because it was one of the few areas of math that I'm actually any good at. I love Penrose tiles. I wish I could find someone selling them as floor tiles for bathrooms and such.

This one fills the "Colored Pencils" square on my 3-1-22 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest.

Altair Designs Penrose Page



This design uses overlapping rings. Compare it to the Wedding Ring category of quilt block patterns. Mom and I also shared a love of quilts. Because linked rings often display an over-under pattern, like what I used here, they also relate to the geometric art category of knotwork or interlace.

This one fills the "Wedding Quilt" square on my 3-1-22 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest.

Altair Designs Rings Page

Comments

[spiralicious]

Those are wonderful and very thoughtful additions for your mother's memorial scrapbook.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad you like these.

[lunabee34]

I had never heard of Altair designs before; they are really cool. Thank you for sharing this with us.

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

There have been many geometric coloring books since, but Altair really started it. I have very fond memories of those designs.