As you will have noticed, I like to take photos especially when I travel. Even if the resulting photos are not great compositions, a camera is a great tool for capturing shapes, mood and colour. Over on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon, Elizabeth has an interesting post showing how you can use your computer to […]
Technique:Design
Dodecaphony
In twelve hours or so, our Twelve by Twelve challenge quilts will start to appear online. I’ve made two pieces for the theme of “Twelve”. They are utterly different and it’s hard to choose but here is the runner up: One of the things I enjoyed about my work as a commercial and regulatory lawyer […]
Feather WIP
From trees, to ferns to feathers:
Budding Ideas
Mucking around with circles and Photoshop:
It takes two to tango
When Terry posted flamenco dancers on the Twelve by Twelve blog and remarked on how difficult “passion” is to simplify, I knew exactly what she was talking about. I had also been inspired by dancers and these sketches show my attempts to simplify a tango motif: It’s also been a challenge to work with a […]
Designing matters
One of the benefits of membership* of The Quilters’ Guild of NSW Inc is access to an extensive library. Recently I borrowed Ann Johnston’s Color by Design which is a veritable recipe book for painting and printing with dye. With its spiral-bound format, this book provides a practical guide to exploring colour and design directly […]