sammi357 Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 It's sudoku for the fabric challenged! I've got brain drain tonight, and can't seem to figure out how to 'randomize' my blocks: someone has to know how to do this...it should be a math thing, but I can't make it work out on paper. Seven prints. The block center is 5.5" sq. wrapped with 2.5" 'logs' of each other color, (except itself, of course) so, seven fabric squares in six variations, each. two of each block (I can make a few more or less, as required. (clear as mud?) How do I lay it out? oh, and to complicate things, two of the prints are very similar greens, and I'd like to keep them from 'clashing'.... but that may just have to be what it is. I used to know a math teacher...she was great at laying this stuff out on paper for me.....sigh.... too bad I have never learned to use my eq... tia! sammi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoryJM Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Okay, I'm confused:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheri Butler Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 I get it as far as the 7 fabric colors using the other 6 as its edge pieces. But... I'm lost on the part where you say...how do you lay it out? In other words, are you laying all 7 across in one row..then you dont know what to do with the 2nd row? If so, you will have to alternate using the even/odd method, or the 1 3 5 7 method, then the 2 4 6 or every 3rd color, which will probably make your blocks meet at the corners and look like the color is angled going down the quilt. Now am I clear as mud? LOL! I'd say your going to need to use your design board and just play around with those blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Sammi and Sheri...You both have me confused! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Originally posted by DoryJM Okay, I'm confused:o Dory...do like I am doing...when I read Sudoku I stopped reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 :P That is why I should have done. Stopped reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 It saves a lot of confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 LOL I'm with Mary Beth. I've never played sudoku so I'm of zero help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbigailE Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 What I would do, would be to find (use) a completed puzzle. Assign one color per number and go from there. Said the math challenged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammi357 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to mislead everyone. It's not a sudoku quilt.I was just feeling like it WAS a sudoku puzzle after trying to lay it out and not being successful...some 64 blocks later, with no progress! ..it's just basic square in a square kind of log cabin style blocks, and there are only 7 fabrics. There has got to be a way to lay them out and not get the same print next to itself, without making myself blind in the process. Oh, did I mention, it's for my 'tweeny' neice, and it's brain-damage-bright-colors?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sspingler Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Sammi, can you send me a pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollyrw Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Keep all the colors in the same order. Move the center color of one block to the outside of the next block. This will give you 7 blocks, each with a different color on the outside. You could just repeat these same 7 blocks or you could rearrange the color sequence for each group of 7 blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheri Butler Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Holly said in a nut shell what I was trying to say, but I went into further indepth detail of how you can change the sequence. I think i'd go for the computer! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 When someone mentions sudoku I just pretend I understand so as not to look to stupid. I understand the concept but don't have the patience to actually work a puzzle. I'm with Mary Beth 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammi357 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 1 purple flower 2 green plaid 3 blue dot 4 green flower 5 hot pink 6 yellow dot 7 green stripe So, the combination of fabrics would be: (skip 1+ 1 because it wouldn't show up to wrap a fabric in itself) 1+2 1+3 1+4 1+5 1+6 1+7 the second set is: 2+1 (skip itself) 2+3 2+4 2+5 2+6 2+7 and so on. Since the blocks are stitched, but the rows not yet sewn, I do have an option to add blocks at this point, if more combinations would allow for a more random layout. I don' t really want that obvious "diagonal" in the layout I could add: 8 slime green 9 Orange 10 turquoise the addition of three more fabrics would result in 9 variations of blocks, of each color. It will always end up one less block than the # of fabrics, since one square isn't wrapped in it's own color. Geeze, those guys on Numb3rs make it seem so easy....lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinneaMarie Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 OH Lord!:o I'm outta this one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollyrw Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ah. each block is only wrapped in one color. I thought each block was wrapped by all the colors. So ignore my previous post. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 AAAAGGHHH!!! I'm out'a here!!!! linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 If it involves math, then forget me. This is all way too confusing for my pea-brain to comprehend... but I'll bet that quilt is very pretty when done. Please share a photo when finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Originally posted by JustSewSimple I just pretend I understand so as not to look to stupid. I don't pretend.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Hi, sorry guys, you lost me there. This is for Linda Gibbons, I will be in Marysville, Ohio from Nov 22 through Dec 5th, how far away are you from there? Corey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammi357 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Holly, that's right, each of the fabric squares are wrapped by every other color, just not itself. so, you end up with six combinations of seven different fabrics. there has to be a way to figure this out, and not make me crazy. I did try the design board, and the more that ya try to move a block so that they aren't right next to a similar one, the worse it gets! ok, where's that quilter's math lady when I need her...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 I think I need pictures...you know...like 5 apples and take 3 away....:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 I love Sudoko - but this makes Sudoko sound easy....I am no help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammi357 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 It really could work with the concept of the sudoku...no two blocks the same in a row, no two blocks the same in a column. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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