We wrap our series on design exercise #1 this week with the last of our five designers, Kathy K. Wylie.

This week, we present the fourth designer in our series: Karen Menzies.

We feature the work of Joyce O’Connell this week, the third of our five designers.

We continue our series this week with the second of our five designers: Marnie Mascioli.

Design exercise 1 has been completed and here are the results from the first of our five designers: Hilary Rice.

Visual balance is attained through the distribution of visual weight. This week, we look at two more types of visual balance: crystallographic balance and asymmetrical balance.

What is visual balance and how can it be attained? This week we look at two types of visual balance: symmetrical balance and radial balance.

Designing the swags for the borders of my quilt “Flourish on the Vine” has been the single greatest challenge in my creative life to date.  Last week, I outlined the many questions and dilemmas that I faced.  This week, as promised, I will explain the somewhat unusual approaches that I used to address my design [...]

It has been quite a while since I last shared the progress of my quilt “Flourish on the Vine”.  This is partly because the next stage – the appliqué in the borders – is taking a fair bit of time to complete.  But it is also because I didn’t want to reveal any of the border designs [...]

Last week, we took a look at the many new capabilities in EQ7 for working with images. Here are a few more fun tools that have been added: the Swath Tool and the Serendipity Tools.

My EQ7 upgrade arrived this past week, so I thought we’d take a break from our series on Art Concepts for Quilting and check it out. Find out some of the great new features in this latest version of the popular quilt design software from The Electric Quilt Company.

I realized that my study of squares and rectangles in quilts was incomplete because my last article focused solely on traditional patchwork quilt block designs. Here are some additional examples of quilts, this time in a more contemporary or art quilt style.

Let’s look at examples of how the element of shape is used in quilt design. We’ll begin with two similar geometric shapes: the square and the rectangle.

Shape is an element of design that is very familiar to quilters. Patchwork blocks are constructed from a variety of geometric shapes; appliqué patches can take on any form or shape. And of course, quilts themselves come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

In this new series, we will be looking at art and design principles and considering how they apply to quiltmaking.  Many of us have come to quilting without an art or design background – myself included.  But it’s never too late to learn!  Besides, as Pablo Picasso once said, “I am always doing that which [...]