New class this Friday

"Inspired to Design" - my most popular class starts again on Quilt University this Friday.  This is the most basic class I teach.  It's about taking a photograph and extracting lots of different quilt ideas from it. 

Ideas sketched out and hung up on design wall for review

 

 

It also covers the basics of thoughtful design (I expand on those in my follow-up class Working in Series), and choosing a great color scheme.  I also go through how to block out a quilt working from a small sketch - no need to drive across town to the copy shop and spend money on a couple of large cartoons!  I don't know who started this idea that you need a full size cartoon to make a piece - certainly painters don't have that.  Perhaps tapestry artists do.

Here's the photograph

 

 

 

Here's the sketch

 

And here's the quilt!

as you can see there are some differences between the final version and the drawing - I like that - if you have the main shapes in places and the main values organized, then you can add little interesting bits if you feel an area needs them.  it's like putting a fancy door knob on the door of a house that is all previously designed.
If you're slavishly following a full size cartoon, it's a lot harder to make those little changes.  On the other hand if you have no sketch at all, then it's very difficult to have a good basic structure to the quilt design.

Eniow!  just some of my pet peeves...some people have marketing Mondays and wordless Wednesdays, I have peevish january the 29ths!!!
If you have been, thanks for reading!  And if you are signed up, I look forward to seeing you in class!
Elizabeth