When I’m designing quilts, one of the most important aspects of a sketch is how it makes me feel. Not about how easy it might be to make, or who it might appeal to, but how I feel when I look at it: Indifferent? Bored? Surprised? Delighted?. This week’s sketch is the sort of simple, fun design that makes me very happy. The sort of design I’ll stumble onto and think “ha!”. And then I’ll keep going back to it, because it makes me smile 🙂
This week’s sketch feels a bit like the design equivalent of a ‘novelty’ fabric. (Although after googling that phrase, I’ve discovered that people seem to have different ideas of what that actually means.) To me, it’s a fun design featuring recognisable objects rather than just shapes and colours. In this case, birds!
I started off a bit slowly when first designing with these pointed arches, but I ended up going gangbusters. It’s such a versatile shape. It works a bit like a triangle-in-a-square block, but the curves add a bit of oomph that means it pairs really well with quarter-circles and orange peels. That’s what I’ve been using in the past few weeks’ sketches, and it’s the same again this week. But this one might be my absolute favourite!
