Bruce's Scrap Slab Quilt

 

I love in seeing the quilts students make from my tutorials. This is a quilt Bruce made from my Scrap Slab Triangles tutorial. 

 As you can see he also made four coordinating 18" square throw pillows. Bruce and his wife wanted a bright quilt, and he enjoyed using his old fabrics to make the slabs. It is queen sized, 94" x 100". 

Bruce wanted a random pattern of colors and triangle directions with some restrictions. A friend of his who taught math and computer science wrote an Excel program that created a pattern for a 16 x 15 block quilt that used each triangle color 60 times, each triangle direction close to 60 times and avoided creating diamonds. (Bruce didn't want diamonds in the quilt.) He and his friend ran the program several times until he settled on the exact arrangement of the quilt.

The quilt is fabulous, but what really floats my boat is the story of how Bruce and his friend developed a computer program to work out the design. That is so damned cool!