Designing your own quilt is a lot of fun. You might be wondering, how does someone even begin to do this! Or maybe you have the, “I’m not creative” statement going through your mind. A quilt doesn’t have to be fancy and intricate for you to have designed your own quilt. Maybe you like the colour green and are comfortable cutting out squares of the same size. Go ahead and find all your fabrics that have green in it, cut out squares and then start laying them out until you are happy with how it looks. You DESIGNED your own quilt! Maybe you are thinking “that’s so basic and anyone can do that” - well…maybe you aren’t thinking the word “basic"; I work with a lot of young people. Your green quilt with squares is still your design. YOU chose the fabrics, you decided what size to cut them and how to arrange them. You decided on the fabric for the back of your quilt and how to quilt it. You also decided on the fabric that would make the perfect binding. All those decisions are design decisions. Let’s say that you want to make something that is a bit more involved. Week One of the design course is building your own blocks and arranging them into a pattern that you like. Watch the YouTube video for Week One: Part One to see how to use the Quilt Block Cut Out’s to design your own blocks and arrange them into your own pattern ideas. If you aren’t much for watching videos, I have outlined the steps I go through in the video.
YouTube video: Week One - Part Two - this video goes over taking your larger blocks that you laid out and putting your pattern onto graph paper.
Sometimes when your quilt is drawn out on graph paper, you might have another idea begin to form. Sometimes you see things a little differently and you will be prompted to explore those ideas. It might be changing the direction of some blocks to create a different look. Or colouring in a different pieces to make another secondary pattern jump out.
It’s okay to have a few graph paper renderings. You can make a quilt for each one, or just choose your favourite.
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