Kaleidoscope Inspiration

Wouldn’t it be fun to make a quilt using this design……

….although trying to figure out how to piece it might be REALLY interesting!!! I would definitely need to simplify it GREATLY!!!

But, if you are inspired…..Go For It!!!

Botero Flower Field

I have mentioned here before that I enjoy the works of Fernando Botero. His, often chubby, subjects just make me smile…..

But this painting is so different and I would LOVE to model a quilt after this idea…..

Yep…something else to add to my ever-growing list of projects!!!

Is there an artist that inspires your art??

Movement!!

A few weeks ago I had to pick Michael up at the International Airport in Atlanta.

While I was waiting for him, I noticed this “blob” suspended from the ceiling….

….and marked as “AirportArt”.

Okay…it is somewhat interesting!!

THEN, I looked closer and realized that it was made from a series of chains and was moving in the wind…..

Oh, how I would love to capture that sort of movement in a quilt!!!

Circle’s Abounding

Isn’t this a fun design!!!!

I have NO idea where this particular design came from but I have often thought about it as a quilt.

I was given a circle cutting ruler for Christmas and have been thinking a lot about circles…..

Maybe this is the one???

Have you done a lot of quilting with circles? I would love to see your quilts!!!

Tower of Inspiration….

Back in 2007, Michael and I spent 2 months in Oxford England while he was acting as a “Visiting Research Fellow” at Merton College.

We lived in this fun, 3-story house across the street from the College……

While we were there, we would often catch the train into London and spend the day sightseeing.

One of our favorite trips was to visit the Tower of London, and it was there that I once again found a fun quilt inspiration.

In the armory area, there were open stud walls and this particular one sported bricks in between the studs…..

Wouldn’t it be fun to use this idea to make a strip quilt using this inspiration……

I can see using scrap fabrics for the “bricks” and maybe adding a small strip in between to represent the grout, or maybe just butting the fabric bricks up against one another.

You could even sew LONG strips of bricks and just cut them to the size needed.

Now I am thinking that I need to explore this further!!!

That is the problem with posting inspirations…..they often lead to MORE quilts!!!

Does this photo make you think about a quilt??