thenotsodramaticlife

I gather inspiration for my quilts from a wide range of sources, including nature, architecture, and aspects of daily life. However, I rarely use contemporary quilts as design inspiration- unless there is a challenge involved!

Implementing constraints in your design process is one of the best ways to encourage creativity, so when one of my quilting groups did a challenge earlier this year, I was excited to participate. This particular challenge was the visual equivalent of a game of telephone, with each participant creating a mini quilt to inspire the next person’s design.

Do you do a quilting test on a sample sandwich before quilting your final project?

It’s easy to get excited and dive right into quilting a big project, but quilting tests can help us take our quilts from good to great.