Doodle Quilts – Amanda O'Brien

Found this great post on quilt doodling, how great!

Yes, I am still here! Yes, we are still going to finish these diamonds. Remember this? I started off showing you the green stippling in the center. Next I am going to jump to the pink cobblestones or pebbles or circles…according to what you would like to call them.

The cool part about doing cobblestones is that you can travel anywhere you need to go. This design is very thread heavy so make sure you have plenty of the same thread before you start out to cobble your way around a border! For now, we are just filling in one diamond so it isn’t a problem. As you look at the finished star and all the different colors of thread that I used on it, I worked using one color of thread at a time and moved all around the star. I tried to evenly distribute the colors so as not to make a online blackjack table side by side color mistake. So….I actually started this project with the pink.

Next, I tried my version of Ivory Spring’s jester hats. Please see Ivory Spring’s blog to see a great tutorial on how she does her jester hats.

This star is a sampler class that I teach. I got tired of making little squares or rectangles to fill with different quilting designs so my students would have something to refer back to. This star looked more interesting and something that could be finished as desired or made into a pillow. Ok, I confess, I have lots of pieces of quilt sandwiches pinned all over my sewing room with design ideas that I have tried. I know a lot of you make sample books to keep track of the different designs you have tried. That’s a great idea if I could make myself sit down and do it. This seemed like the next best thing.

Keep Doodling!

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