Oh, Pat, we have got to get past those curves together! They aren't as hard as you think, I am sure of it. This design has very few curves and they are the easy kind that are suitable for beginners. Please give it a try! The dresden flowers of the daisy and water lily are machine appliquéd - so no tricky piecing there!
Thanks for sharing your design process. I am fascinated by your "old school" graph paper and pencil beginnings before moving into EQ8. Although I do love many things about the EQ8 program (especially the ease and speed of revising and previewing alternatives without having to start over drawing from scratch), I sometimes suspect that the software influences and constrains the design process due to the assumptions built into the program, what it can do easily and automatically, versus trying to represent something wholly original in the software and needing to figure out hacks to trick the software into creating a representation that looks like what you want to make. Hopefully that makes sense. Anyway, I'm wondering whether your process of beginning on paper before moving to the software helps you to keep your creative muse more in control of the quilt design you end up making.
I totally understand what you mean, Rebecca. I prefer indeed to work on graph paper because then I feel free to try anything. It's fast for me to add and remove ideas with a stroke of a pencil. When ideas need to be replicated (like a repeating pattern) then digital would be faster and let me see the potential better. But if I am designing something with a lot of complex details, like my sampler quilts, then I think pencil and paper is stronger for me.
This is going to be beautiful. That 4-petal flower at lower left is an intriguing focal point.
It looks beautiful.
Beautiful!
Really, what a beautiful result from a necessary break from stressful realities.
I love playing with light and dark, and scraps. This will be a great project and seriously not a stress filled challenge.
😍😍I’m in!!
Tapestry Garden would be a fun BOM project, but I always say, “I don’t do curves.” How tricky are they? And how are the daisy and water lily adhered?
Oh, Pat, we have got to get past those curves together! They aren't as hard as you think, I am sure of it. This design has very few curves and they are the easy kind that are suitable for beginners. Please give it a try! The dresden flowers of the daisy and water lily are machine appliquéd - so no tricky piecing there!
curves are easy. really, much easier than some other techniques!
Thanks for sharing your design process. I am fascinated by your "old school" graph paper and pencil beginnings before moving into EQ8. Although I do love many things about the EQ8 program (especially the ease and speed of revising and previewing alternatives without having to start over drawing from scratch), I sometimes suspect that the software influences and constrains the design process due to the assumptions built into the program, what it can do easily and automatically, versus trying to represent something wholly original in the software and needing to figure out hacks to trick the software into creating a representation that looks like what you want to make. Hopefully that makes sense. Anyway, I'm wondering whether your process of beginning on paper before moving to the software helps you to keep your creative muse more in control of the quilt design you end up making.
I totally understand what you mean, Rebecca. I prefer indeed to work on graph paper because then I feel free to try anything. It's fast for me to add and remove ideas with a stroke of a pencil. When ideas need to be replicated (like a repeating pattern) then digital would be faster and let me see the potential better. But if I am designing something with a lot of complex details, like my sampler quilts, then I think pencil and paper is stronger for me.
Love this quilt. I'm definitely going to join in.