I am a doodler. My desk calendars, old envelopes, scraps of paper, even magazine pages are great places to doodle. Free motion quilting is a form of doodling. Instead of creating shapes or lines with pen and paper a needle and thread are used.
I recently made this quilt.
The first step was to put my design down on paper. I did this through doodling. After trying out various options I was able to develop one that worked.
Here’s what I produced.
Using my conventional sewing machine I was then able to transfer what I had learned into stitches. Here’s how it looked.
As you can see the houses do not all look the same. They are different because I wanted them to have an earthy appearance, to look haphazard.
I am so thrilled that I was able to successfully create the house image through stitching. Once I have finished my Art Quilt # 26: Blue Condo you will be able to see how the new pattern looked.
Do you doodle? Why?