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Category Archives: Design process

An insight into my design process

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Story of a Design Wall

Posted on Sunday, December 30 , 2012 by RuthOctober 29, 2016

In my old studio I had a moderation board on castors that I used as a design wall. Apart from the fact that the castors got mounted incorrectly, so that the brakes were both on the same side of the … Continue reading →

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Nothing to show…

Posted on Thursday, June 09 , 2011 by RuthJune 11, 2011

here on the blog for reasons I mentioned in my previous post, but I had a very productive weekend. Last Thursday was a public holiday here in Germany, so I took the Friday off too and made a long weekend. … Continue reading →

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Sketches for the series

Posted on Sunday, April 10 , 2011 by RuthApril 10, 2011

Having done a lot of exercises looking at artists who work in series and thinking about my own quilts I like best I realised a few things. I looked at the quilts I feel most happy about to see if … Continue reading →

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Working in a Series

Posted on Tuesday, March 29 , 2011 by RuthMarch 29, 2011

As if I didn’t have enough things to do, I signed up for a class at QU with Elizabeth Barton on working in a series. I have been wittering on about whether I should develop some of my beginnings of … Continue reading →

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Slow progress

Posted on Sunday, February 27 , 2011 by RuthFebruary 27, 2011

My design class has finished at QU this week. I have a design that I am working on, but progress is very slow. I really don’t have the energy at the moment to be in the studio. Also as we … Continue reading →

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Value studies

Posted on Sunday, January 30 , 2011 by RuthJanuary 30, 2011

One of the useful things I have learnt on the course I’m currently taking at QU is to do a value study before you start to think about a colour scheme. One of the exercises was to draw a simple … Continue reading →

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Shadows

Posted on Wednesday, September 01 , 2010 by RuthOctober 30, 2016

Well I gave you the rear view of my latest quilt a couple of weeks ago, so here is the full frontal: I wrote here about part of the design process. Part of the inspiration for the different coloured images … Continue reading →

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Using Adobe Photoshop Elements

Posted on Saturday, July 17 , 2010 by RuthJuly 17, 2010

I’m working on my next challenge piece for Use Your Eyes. The theme is shadows. It didn’t take me long to choose an image to use. It was a photo I took as part of my C&Gs course. It was … Continue reading →

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Finished and then finished again

Posted on Sunday, March 28 , 2010 by RuthMarch 28, 2010

I thought I had the quilt top for my final assessment piece finished. I had sewn all the spirals together and filled in the hole with the black circle. It was all pressed and ready to be admired on the … Continue reading →

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Two rings on my design wall

Posted on Tuesday, March 09 , 2010 by RuthMarch 9, 2010

The last two weekends I’ve been working on the piecing of the hexagon spirals. The first task was to produce a full sized cartoon on brown parcel paper. Since the sketches were 30 cm square, I decided the easiest was … Continue reading →

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