Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Quilt Inspirations and Ideas

I love to make bags and I have found that I enjoy making quilts.  I am not as adept as some or as inspired as many, but it is fun nonetheless.

I came to make quilts long after I first learned how to sew and long after I made my first bag.  I resisted it at first  but finally on a trip to Venice where I was stunned by the mosaic floors of St. Mark's, I found myself thinking, "this would make the coolest quilt!"

I still haven't made a quilt based on any of these mosaics; I started smaller, simpler.  
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But once I allowed myself to think quilt, I began to find little inspirations everywhere - so just a few that a re percolating now (please pardon the grossly sub-par photography)

Note to self: that red light is shorter than you think...