Story of a Design Wall
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
Category Archives: Design process
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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
Sketches for the series
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
Working in a Series
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
Slow progress
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
Value studies
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
Shadows
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
Using Adobe Photoshop Elements
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
Finished and then finished again
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
Two rings on my design wall
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