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Sunday sketch #439

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 🙂

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Sunday sketch #438

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!

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Sunday sketch #436

This is the penultimate post in a series of five Sunday sketches based on a pointed arch (or a Gothic arch). I started with Sunday sketch #433, and I’ll finish next week with Sunday sketch #437.

It’s not often that I post so many related designs in a row (I’ve done quite a few series of four, but I can find only two other series of five: sketches #400#404 in February/March this year; and #132#136 in January/February 2019). But it’s such a fun shape to play with!

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