Take a look at this one:
Now I think that the beige color triangles will make quite large squares when reduced and recombined. So I thought I'd break it up a bit...I inserted orange and red squares in the corners near the center:
Well, that part worked, but now I have a different problem. The blue center seems to overpower the rest of the colors and dominate the quilt cane. That's not exactly what I wanted.
If I did this cane again, I'd probably sswap the dark blue triangles with the light green. Or just leave the beige triangles alone.
Here's another one:
The blue is predominate, but the white isn't too far behind...they seem to balance each other somewhat. If you look at the block before it was reduced and combined, you can see that the blue triangle and the large white triangle on the opposite corner are the same size, so it makes sense that they balance each other to some extent in the recombined cane. Darker colors can overpower lighter colors, even if they are the same amount in a cane. When I look at this recombined cane, the blue seems to pop out more.
Still, I like it well enough, but it's not my favorite. I'm not sure what I'd do differently if I made this one again...perhaps break up the large blue triangle. Maybe put a smaller, lighter blue triangle within the larger blue triangle. Or perhaps even white?
Let's look at one more:
I like it best of the three. It has good balance. The dark and light areas don't overwhelm each other, yet the quilt pattern doesn't fade into the background and look blah:
A lot of it is personal preference, I suppose. I don't know--which one do you like best?
Heh. Bonus points if you know the quilt pattern names....
