Design Tinkering

I was feeling tired and sleepy today, and it’s Friday so rather than work on what I SHOULD have been working on, I’ve been tinkering with a design for a new goddess: Light in Me.

I’m now designing almost 100% on computer (Serif Draw Plus or Adobe Illustrator) because it’s so much faster than hand drawing. I can set up lines, copy and paste to mirror and rotate with a few clicks rather than a lot of copying and tracing with a pencil and tracing paper.

However, this is still not a speedy process. I’ve been spending most of the day adding lines, deleting lines, trying out new ideas, adjusting things to fit. It’s a bit tedious, but also fun to see the design coming together.

When designing any quilt there’s only one question I ask:

The things I like, I try to emphasize. The things I don’t like, I know to adjust until I do like them. It’s a slow process of adding, tweaking, then deleting, adding again. Eventually the design will be complete when I can look at it and like all aspects of it, and feel no twitchy need to adjust that area or fix that spot.

So that’s what I’ve been up to today. Whatcha think? Does she need more hair?

Let’s go play,

Leah