As a designer, reading about design in relation to quilting is interesting. I recently picked up Katie Pasquini Masopust’s book, Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter. There were a lot of great ideas for creative inspiration, composition and color themes. I found a technique that I learned in photography but used in a different way for quilting. I thought this was so cool.
view finder or cropping tool
These are her basic instructions: Start with a photo of a landscape, animals, buildings, plants. Use an empty slide mount or make your own 1-3/8 x 7/8 window within a piece of white paper. Use your view finder to find a good crop for your composition. Trace the shapes within the frame. Here’s the part that’s a little different. A line must connect to other lines to create complete shapes so you always have closed shapes for your pattern templates.
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Oh, I love those tips. That view finder idea is great and just the idea I’ve been looking for to help me when designing. And I love that tip about the lines. I’ve never heard that before but I can see from your picture what you mean and why. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great! I’m so happy that this will be helpful for you.