Overlap & Pattern Designing
I am just so excited for this new series that I thought I would share a bit about each the quilts that I designed.
So this first one is called “Overlap”
This is actually the last one I designed in this series….it has the most variety of blocks and it might be my favorite. It’s actually difficult to choose favorites because I love them all for different reasons. Sometimes I love a design because it came to me in a dream. Sometimes I love it because I played with the blocks so much that I almost gave up and then conquered it. Sometimes I can sit down to design and a design will come in what feels like seconds….like it seems to fast to be legitimate.
There is so much that goes into designing patterns. There is a lot to think about. Just some things off the top of my head:
- Will anyone else like this design?
- Is it marketable?
- How easy or difficult is it to construct?
Then after you decide those things, there is the making of the sample, the writing of the pattern ( I pay someone to do this part because I don’t have time. I also really wanted my friend to have a job she could do from home in a subject that she excels…now she is also picking up new clients. :) ). After all of that ->then you have to photograph the quilt. This is harder than one might think given the lighting, size of quilt and styling the quilt. I struggle with this so much because I am not a photographer. I get impatient and there have been times where I have had to take a quilt out 4-5 times to get a decent cover shot. Then after all of that there is marketing and social media and TONS of PRAYING that someone will like it.
One thing that I also get hung up on is what to name a quilt. Sometimes it’s just there plain as day and there’s no thinking about it. Other times I marinate and stew over it. ( I am just a foodie that I can always use food terms to describe something….hahaha!) This one was originally named “Flaps” because I thought of envelope flaps. But it didn’t feel right. So my ghost rider came up with a few names that came to her mind and Overlap made the final cut.
Also while making this series of quilts I made 9 of them within a 2 week period of time with several HUGE events taking place and by the time I got to this one #9 I was tired and I couldn’t really think about quilting designs…..but now that I look at it….I am pleased with it. It’s “organic”..I freehanded everything without rulers and I just let it all go because I needed to get it finished. I had to get my daily work on the frame. So I let perfection go. I have realized that I have had to do that with a few of my own projects or I am not going to make deadlines.
I will share more on my journey with designing as I go along.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
blessings!
Charisma
