I have new quilt design in the May/June 2015issue of Quiltmaker magazine. Below, you will find on the left, the cover of the issue featuring a beautiful quilt designed by Bonnie Hunter. At right below is the finished quilt as seen in the issue featuring "Calypso" Batik fabrics from Timeless Treasures. Click on the image for the kit.
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This quilt was designed while patiently waiting to set up a new mobile phone contract for me and my family at my local Best Buy Store. It was a long enough process to begin with. Then the computer gremlins of cyber space decided to get involved and the process got even longer. But it was O.K. because I had my sketch book with me. I always bring a sketch pad with me wherever I go.
My favorite sketch book is a 6” x 8.5” spiral bound graph pad. The grid comes in handy since most of the designs for quilting blocks are grid based. I also have a non-gridded sketch pad for general doodling purposes. Almost all of my designs come from time spent exploring ideas in my sketch pad. I should spend more time playing in my sketch book. It’s good for my mind and I recommend it to anyone looking to expand their creative juices.
Below are my initial sketches for the design that I drew while in the store while waiting for the gremlins of cyber space to lose interest in us. I started with the sketch on the left and then I sketched it out as a repeat to see what it would look like. I always start with a black and white version of the idea. When I get to my Electric Quilt (EQ) program I move into the realm of using grey scale values to enhance the design.
My favorite sketch book is a 6” x 8.5” spiral bound graph pad. The grid comes in handy since most of the designs for quilting blocks are grid based. I also have a non-gridded sketch pad for general doodling purposes. Almost all of my designs come from time spent exploring ideas in my sketch pad. I should spend more time playing in my sketch book. It’s good for my mind and I recommend it to anyone looking to expand their creative juices.
Below are my initial sketches for the design that I drew while in the store while waiting for the gremlins of cyber space to lose interest in us. I started with the sketch on the left and then I sketched it out as a repeat to see what it would look like. I always start with a black and white version of the idea. When I get to my Electric Quilt (EQ) program I move into the realm of using grey scale values to enhance the design.
Now that I had a design that I liked, I further explored my options using my EQ program. Below you can see my journey through the design process. From one step to the next I would color in different pieces of the block design using different values of grey. Eventually I came to the arrangement of values that I felt best enhanced the design. Next I did a mock of the design using basic colors from the EQ palette.
Finally I looked through my EQ fabric library till I found a collection that I felt would look nice in this design. I found a great collection in my EQ Stash 2014 Download 02 folder. The collection is called Blueprint Basics. It’s designed by Valori Wells for Robert Kaufman fabrics. I was able to parse out two colorways for the design from this one collection. Below are the two looks and their individual blocks.
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