Drawing Inspiration from Earlier Quilts
In my previous post I told you that my barn sketches were inspired, in part, by an earlier quilt. However, the idea of drawing inspiration from a completed piece was not my own. Instead, it came from Elizabeth Barton’s book “Inspired to Design.” Her suggestion is to look at some of your favorite quilts and let them be a spring board for new ideas. Once I did that, I got some surprising results.
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Like the sketch above. It looks NOTHING like the original quilt. In this case, I traced significant shapes from the first quilt, enlarged them, created variations, and then arranged them. (Again, using tracing paper to play with composition.)
See if you can figure out the quilt that inspired these shapes. A big hint: the quilt is on my website, but not on the gallery page.
I’ll reveal the inspiration quilt in the next post.
Ellen Lindner
