Daisy Inspired!!

I love daisies…..

They are so fresh and lovely and played a prominent role in my wedding bouquet…

They also inspired this fun art piece that I made 6 years ago for my friend Lyn, who hiked the ENTIRE Appalachian Trail by herself and was given the trail name “Wildflower”!!

And….looking at this reminds/inspires me to make another piece like this. It was SO much fun!!

Are you inspired by a particular flower?

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Right Below Your Feet

I was looking back at photos from our 2019 visit to Vienna and came across this fun tile floor…

Originally, it looked complicated, but when I split it into two blocks…

….it became VERY easy to design.

But, if you turn it on point, it becomes MUCH more interesting….

I love taking non-quilt designs and figuring out how to piece them. Too bad I don’t have time to make all of the designs I come up with!!

Do you do this too?

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Aquarium Inspiration

This past week, Michael and I drove to Atlanta and took our 3-year-old grandson, Archer, to the Georgia Aquarium. We had SO much fun seeing it through his eyes…..

At one point, he wanted to take some photos and took several along this line….

This photo got me thinking… wouldn’t it be fun to make a quilt with the “aquarium” in the background and silhouettes of onlookers in the foreground?

THEN….

…while cruising Facebook a couple of days later, I found this quilt idea from Nancy Agombar-Grenier…..

This would be the PERFECT solution to the “aquarium” part of the quilt!!

DEFINITELY something to think about in the future!!

So, after a fun day with the fish and dolphins, and lunch at Chick-fil-A, we arrived back at his house….

He definitely does the “relaxed travel” well!!

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Is the IHG making a comeback?

For the last 3 years, I have been posting ideas of how to turn this carpet…..

…into a quilt.

And, last year, I finally decided to give up on it COMPLETELY and started using the fabrics for other projects.

BUT THEN…..of course there is a “BUT THEN”…..

I have recently been thinking more about Manadala designs, and started wondering if I could use the circle layout, but instead of using fabrics, quilt mandalas to represent the circles.

I put the photo into “ProCreate” and started layering the circles….