More designs!
The Quilt Design A Day (QDAD) challenge is to take 15-30 minutes a day and work on a quilt design. We have a Facebook group that’s open to whomever wants to join in or hang out. No rules, no pressure! You can see my past QDAD designs here.
We’re moving into the time where I was visiting Boston, so I didn’t have a lot of time to play with the designs as they were often done at 2am.
I had gone to visit the Quilts and Color display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and I was really inspired by the Amish and Mennonite designs on display. This was my modern take on the classic bars quilt.
This was inspired by the interplay of the door and the painted wooden slats in the inspiration image.
I decided to play with star designs, and this was the first of them. I wasn’t particularly happy with how this one turned out, but I do like that it looks like something that would glow in the dark. That’s kinda fun, right?
Trying out star shapes with circular edges, layering and transparency. I made this after my best friend’s wedding so I was also trying to tie in the concept of rings and connecting. This might be interesting to revisit with a different palette.
Back to playing with stars! I think this is more successful than the previous one. I was playing with the different facets to go along with the inspiration image.
This is more a statement than a design. I had flown back from Boston and was pretty exhausted, so when I sat down with the design seeds and the images was of a geode, AGAIN or a door, AGAIN, the only thing that came to mind was: “…” So I made it into a design.
This design is still riffing on a star. This is just a 4 sided star with overlapping spokes to make it look more petal like. For the design on the right, I took one of the petals from the design on the left and rotated it. The water ripples would be done with quilting.
14 thoughts on “Quilt Design A Day”
i actually LOVE mineral tones – both the design and the colors! gem palette is really cool, and i love the color way as is. but you know me, i love those weirdo colors…and weirdo purple. (;
You ARE the purple fan, it’s true. 🙂 I did another version of mineral tones in the other color way of that day, which was blues and greys. I liked it in the warms better, though!
Great designs Anne. I want to make those stars from mineral bright 🙂
Thanks Vera! 😀 If you end up making it, let me know as I’d love to see it!!
Me too, I really like the mineral bright. Lots of paper piecing I would guess but what a wonderful result it would be.
Thank you! And yes, I’m pretty sure paper-piecing would be required for the mineral brights pattern. 🙂 Maybe a small pillow would be enough. 😉
Mineral tones, I agree. Floral tones, right. Looks like a strawberry slowly falling toward a pool of cream. Mmmm…..
If your cream is that color, you should probably not eat it. 😉 Although a few color changes and it would totally work fine!
I’ve got a soft spot for circular shapes, transparency and even purple (OK, there I said it) so Gem Palette speaks to me. Although the thought of actually making all the parts needed for the Mineral Brights exhausts me, it’s fabulous – especially if it was done in less of a candy corn palette.
Man, if you like circles you must be loving my month of circle thing that’s been going on. lol I like purple! I just didn’t really like it with the raspberry tone. Those are both colors I like, I just didn’t care for them together. 🙂
The first version of the Mineral Brights was done in blues and creams. That might be more your style! I should have shown it but I was being lazy about making the composite images. 😉
I like your Color Sip stars. It might be interesting to try it using multiple colors. Your Mineral Brights design would make a most excellent fabric pattern.
Hrmmm you’re right, the color sip stars would probably be better with different colors. 🙂 Sometimes it’s hard for me to see the design around the palette I’m using!
I hadn’t considered Mineral Brights as a fabric. Maybe I’ll go play with Spoonflower some more! 🙂
Hi Anne,
I am writing a tutorial on how I translate the Design Seeds palettes into Kona using the Palette Builder. I plan to include links to your site and Qdad, of course. Please let me know if you are ok. with me showing pictures of the Palette Builder results and how I move the circles around to match the Design Seeds palette. Thank you! I love Palette Builder!!
Elli
I answered on Facebook but wanted to answer here in case anyone else was curious. 🙂 You’re definitely free to link to Palette Builder and show photos and all that! Thank you for asking. 😀 A tutorial sounds brilliant. I wrote one a while ago, but having someone else’s perspective would be great. 🙂