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Daily Dose of Design?
I always feel a bit abashed that I have a smartphone, but every day I seem to find a cool use for it, especially the camera. On my lunch hour the other day, I went to buy some sympathy cards … Continue reading
Design Series: Unity/Harmony
Look for Sandy‘s podcast, which was posted on 1/12/2012. This post is a companion to the podcast and we discuss many examples and I provide a lot of explanations about the information below. The Design Definition we are using in … Continue reading
Design Class: Balance
This post is a companion to the Quilting…for the Rest of Us podcast episode on Balance. As a reminder, the general design definition that we are using is: Design is a problem solving activity within all the arts, placing or … Continue reading
Design Homework: Line
During the last Quilting…for the Rest of Us Design podcast and my accompanying post on Line, I suggested some homework exercises. I did the exercises and thought I would share my work with you. Exercise #1 I said that you … Continue reading
Design Class: Line
Sandy and I got busy on the second class in the design series. See her blog for more information. See her supplemental post for even further information. During my research travels into Line this past week, I found a great … Continue reading
Design Overview
Recently, Sandy, of Quilting for the Rest of Us, and I recorded a podcast where we started to talk about design. Several months ago, she asked me if I would considering talking with her and her listeners about design. I … Continue reading
Diamond Organization
Except for one diamond, all of the diamonds for Fabric of the Year 2010 are cut, bar one. I am now in the stage where I have to make sure that I have enough border patches. I also needed to … Continue reading
Scraps
Recently, I was thinking about scraps. Part of my thought process stemmed from a discussion I had with a New Zealand quilt friend, another part had to do with the completion of the Cheerful Baskets quilt and, finally, looking and … Continue reading
Color Inspiration
A discussion came up at the CQFA meeting on Saturday about Jelly Rolls. As you know, I used a Jelly Roll for the Zig Zaggy top, It’s a Merry & Bright Wrap and I am in the process of using … Continue reading
Zig Zaggy Start
This past weekend I mostly worked on the Blue Janus Quilt, which I called the Blue Quilt in a previous post. Those squares required a lot of chain piecing and I needed something to piece in between so that I … Continue reading
Interview with Denyse Schmidt at Design Sponge
I love good interviews and this one gets to the heart of this designer. I love knowing how people work and a little about their process. Thanks to Denyse for being interviewed and design sponge for writing and posting the … Continue reading
Design Exercises
We did a bunch of things at the CQFA meeting and one that I haven’t yet written about was the design exercises. We continued our design and creativity series (not sure if that is the name, but I had to … Continue reading
Announcing EQ7
I just heard the announcement for the new version of the Electric Quilt software, EQ7. This is an update to Electric Quilt 6. I have used EQ since the dark ages of EQ3? EQ4? I can’t even remember. There are … Continue reading
New Row Quilt Thought
I have been thinking of row quilts on and off for a long time. I wrote about a row quilt idea back in April of 2007. I have seen a number of them that I really like. One I remember … Continue reading
Fabric Design Must-Haves
I have been thinking about fabric design a lot lately. I think it is something that I would love to do. Well, the finished product with my name on it would be great. After hearing Anna Maria Horner talk about … Continue reading
