We’re into that part of the year where everything seems to speed up even MORE than usual. I’m not ready for 2015, let alone Christmas! Guess I better get my butt into gear.
This week’s Quilt Design A Day offerings are a bit all over the board, but here we go.
10-10: Gondola Ride
The picture of the day was of the gondola ride found here at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. I tried to capture the feeling of being suspended in the air by a wire, but not sure I really did the ride justice.
10-11: Playing With the Fishies
The photo showed some children’s blocks, and I went with triangles because I wanted to do something that felt playful, but then I ended up with these spikey looking fishies which aren’t very playful looking. I do like that it’s got a bit of a Southwestern flair, though.
10-12: Sundrops
As I mentioned last week, we’ve moved away from design-seeds on the Facebook group, and instead had our group members sign up for a week to do palettes. Anna Ortiz chose the photos and palettes for this week. Her first image was of some gourds and pumpkins, since they were so seasonal. I was trying to get a gourd shape using HSTs and quarter circles, but ended up at sun drops instead.
10-13: The Gamer Gate
The image for the day was of a pretty butterfly sun catcher. However, I ended up going in another direction as I was really heavily affected by some of the events going on in the gaming community. I’ve mentioned it a bit in the past, and I have done a few designs in response to it. Here’s what I wrote about this design at the time. “This design is not supposed to be very comfortable. It’s a reaction to a series of awful things happening to women working in the games industry right now. It’s been on my mind a lot and I’ve decided to do a few designs to sort of work through my thoughts on it. This particular one is about the how interwoven the community is and yet how isolated the women are from each other, so it’s much easier to single them out for threats and harassment.”
10-14: Quiet Sentinels
The image of the day was a closeup of a scarred tree, with gnarled bark. I was trying to capture the feeling of the bark but ended up with this kind of imposing design.
10-15: Happy Fun Ball
Woohoo! Stripes! I love stripes. The inspiration image was of party plates and party things. This is a nice cheery design after the last two depressing ones. I think I like the binding detail best of all.
10-16: Autobahn
And the final image of the week was of a speedometer in a car! Super fun inspiration and colors for this one. I tried to capture the feel of the speedometer as well as car logos. The colors really make this one for me.
And that wraps up another week! I hope you all have a creative weekend!
Hm. That Happy Fun Ball design may just inspire a set of beads this weekend 🙂 I love it! I hope you will actually quilt something along those lines – love the linear stripes all contained within the round shape. So fun!
Ooooh gosh I hope it does, I’d love to see beads inspired by a QDAD! 😀 That particular quilt design isn’t too difficult, especially if I did applique. Well, getting round things can be kinda hard, but it’s not impossible. I am thinking that in February after I reach my 1 year anniversary of doing a QDAD every day, I may take a break and just start making some of these designs. I am also thinking of branching off and starting a new group to support people who do a creative thing a day. Cuz some days I want to draw instead of QDAD but doing two daily creative tasks for some reason has been hard to manage.
My faves would be Autobahn and Gondola Ride, although the colors on Gondola Ride didn’t connect with me as much.
Thank you! 😀 I keep returning to dark backgrounds with pops of color, I feel like I should try making one of those at some point! I’m not as into vintage colors, either, so I understand not connecting as much.
10/16: Did the tach hit the red line? !@@!
Hahahaha hopefully not! My brother used to race cars and fix them up as a hobby. I ended up knowing a lot more about cars than I expected because of it!
Really like the Autobahn, loving the mustard against the dark background and the orange peels
Thanks so much! 😀 I thought the orange peels were a fun addition. I wonder how hard those would be to piece as opposed to applique…
I usually really like at least one of your designs but today I think they are all fabulous! thanks for the inspiration.
Oh wow, thank you! I admit when I started reading that sentence, I was like “oh no!!!” because I thought it was going to head somewhere else. HAhahaha talk about a happy surprise! 🙂
Love Gamer Gate! This would be a great mini.
Thank you! 😀 Hrmmm I think you’re right that it would work better on a smaller scale. It’s pretty busy as it is, but a smaller portion of it would be compelling.
Autobahn is pretty cool. I like that sort of inspiration 🙂
Thank you! I used to work on car racing games, so I also like this sort of inspiration!
My favorite one this week, believe it or not, is the playing with fishies 🙂
Interesting! I like the raucous way those colors interact, I gotta admit. 🙂
I’m interested in Autobahn and wonder if the orange peely guys can be pieced. I have planned a scrappy DP quilt for next year and I’d love to add some of those guys.
I’m sure they can be pieced, it might just be a PITA. 😉 Maybe I’ll cut out a template and give it a go! Right after all the other stuff I should be working on. :/
I really like the Gamer Gate.
Thank you! That one is on my list of “hope to make some day”. 🙂
Oooo – Gondola Rides really calls to me!
Thank you! 🙂 The design is almost as whimsical as the actual ride. Although it’s missing the caveman. (One of the gondolas has a permanent caveman sitting in it. Because…reasons? I have no idea.)
I really like “10-13 gamer gate”. That is a great design! I also like the whimsy of the striped dots. A child needs that quilt. 🙂
Thank you! The striped dots would totally make a fun baby or child quilt!