The wife wants to make a quilt from squares of fabric cut from my old shirt. Awesome.
Situation:
2” x 4.5” blocks of fabric containing various patterns.
Quilt should be 17 across (4.5” the long way) and 36 down.
612 total blocks will be used.
Here’s the conundrum: She has 16 different designs of fabric. How can she make sure that using these 16 unique designs, the quilt looks completely random. No repeating.
Another kink in the pipe… she doesn’t have the same number of blocks for each pattern… here is the breakdown:
- 43
- 48
- 56
- 56
- 60
- 60
- 70
- 70
- 71
- 76
- 51
- 53
- 43
- 43
- 76
- 35
Remember, 1 … 16 contain different patterns and different counts of blocks. How can she most efficiently and nearly-randomly arrange these blocks on the quilt? I’ll need this is layman’s terms, please. I’m just a lowly front-end UI web developer. Don’t do much maths. :-P