Cafeteria inspiration

In 2015, Michael and I spent a month in India, primarily residing in a guest house in Bangalore.

However, we spent a few days in the city of Pune at the visitor’s center on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science. Each day, we enjoyed breakfast in a small cafeteria, trying many unusual foods.

Now, what makes that an inspiration???

It was the tile design on the wall…..

It doesn’t have an Indian vibe to it, so I’m not sure why it was there, but it certainly added fun to each morning.

And, after all of these years, I still think about how I could use it in a quilt!!

What do you think??

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Me and mosaic tile

I love mosaic tile, whether it is in a floor, a bathroom wall or even a kitchen!!

I once made a quilt using an idea from a church in Rome…..

“The Tiles of San Giovani”

Maybe that is the reason that I took this photo of a tile floor….

Becuase, as usual…..

I am thinking about quilts!!!

What designs inspire you to make quilts??

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How it started….

I spent much of this past weekend being asked questions about how I made the “Catherine Wheel of Color” quilt…..

I decided to track the progress and was surprised to see that I started working on it in 2019!!

It started with this article in a magazine….

I had just bought a new color wheel and was excited to play with it using scraps

Before long I had several “snakes” of color….

Then it kept growing until I had this…..

….but my studio looked like this….

I now needed to find a background for the color wheel, and thought that a grey to black gradation would be perfect.

My first thought was to dye one…..

…but I couldn’t get the gradation that I wanted, so I ended up purchasing fabrics instead.

THEN, I had to figure out what to put inside the color square, and after a lot of searching and thinking, I decided on appliqued circles, using Karen Kay Buckley’s templates….

….and in February of 2020, it looked like this…..

We will stop there for now and continue the saga tomorrow!!

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A Sidewalk Somewhere!!

I have a folder marked “Inspirations” and I love to look through it and find ideas for quilts…. not that I NEED anymore quilt inspirations. I already have IBLE…..

But, I ran across another photo that I took of some floor from somewhere!! Don’t ask me where!!

I am still engrossed with the idea of circle piecing and this design might be lots of fun…….

SOMEDAY!!

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Shadow Inspiration

The other day I was in the kitchen, making myself a cup of tea and noticed this shadow on the cabinet……

It looks a little spooky….maybe like a scene from “Sleepy Hollow”, and it would be a great design for a Halloween quilt!!

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