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Design inspiration is everywhere. It's
in the chair you sit on, the magazine you read, the garden you
tend. It's in how your icons are arranged on your computer desktop
and in the way a pile of leaves are scattered about after a gust
of wind. With so much inspiration readily available, it seems
the actual design process should be easy. But often that is not
the case. If you're looking for some inspiration, this collection
of ideas may help.
Playing With
Lines.
One way I get my creative juices flowing is by playing with lines.
I like to fire up a drawing program (one favorite is Canvas 6
on the Macintosh, but any program with a line tool will work)
and start doodling. Some line doodles grow into interesting designs
that becomes the basis of a quilt. "Shattered" is one
of several quilts I made that started with a line doodle. Click
on Playing With Lines to see how Shattered
was made, starting with a single line.
 Fabric
Scanning. Confession: My preference is to use value when
coloring in a quilt design. It allows me to focus on the design
and on where the placement of relative light to dark fabrics
will fall. However, because I'm always asked how to scan fabric
and create a fill with it in a drawing program, and because playing
with fabric fills can often lead to some nifty design ideas,
here's a how-to tutorial.
Part One:
How to Prepare Fabric for Scanning and Correcting Common Fabric
Scan Problems
Part
Two: How to Add Fabric to the Canvas Ink Palette, and how to
Correct Tiled Edges
Part
Three: Scanning Resources
For more design ideas, be sure to check the
Links page, especially the Art, Color,
Design, and Creativity section.
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